Brian Saltzman
@briansaltzman
Kubernetes platform engineer and GitOps Manager founder, bringing EKS and AKS platforms into production at a financial institution.
SpainWhat I'm looking for
At GitOps Manager S.L., I built GitOps Manager, EKS Manager and AKS Manager, with the platform in production at a multi-billion-dollar financial institution. I turned a single-client platform into products with multi-account support, a least-privilege agent and safe CRD upgrades.
Before that, at Affinity7 Consulting, I built an internal GitOps platform for a financial-services client and automated Kubernetes infrastructure and delivery across AWS and Azure. Earlier, at Horizon Asset Ltd, I delivered a self-service CI/CD platform on AWS EKS; my background also includes technology work at Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Founder & Principal Engineer
GitOps Manager S.L.
Apr 2026 - Present (6 months)
Founded GitOps Manager S.L. and built commercial products: GitOps Manager, EKS Manager (AWS Marketplace) and AKS Manager. Product in production at a multi-billion-dollar financial institution.
Founder & Principal Consultant
Affinity7 Consulting
Jan 2021 - Mar 2026 (5 years 2 months)
Lead engineer for infrastructure automation, Kubernetes platforms and CI/CD across AWS and Azure. Built an internal GitOps platform for a client, forerunner of the GitOps Manager products.
VP DevOps Engineering
Horizon Asset Ltd
Jan 2017 - Dec 2021 (4 years 11 months)
Architected, delivered and ran a self-service CI/CD platform on AWS EKS. Built and managed a 14-node OpenShift cluster on Hyper-V failover clusters.
Founder & CEO
waveBot Ltd
Jan 2016 - Dec 2017 (1 year 11 months)
Built a secure iPhone business-continuity app (Swift) showing mobile access behind a corporate firewall, using OpenLDAP, WSO2 API Manager and JWT-based entitlement checks on REST APIs.
Technical architecture lead for developer-enablement programme; delivered automated DB2 cloning and enabled CI/CD. Built and managed an international QA team of 17.
Co-Founder & CIO
Nuveon LLC
Jan 2003 - Dec 2006 (3 years 11 months)
Co-founded Nuveon LLC and built a multi-zone media server.
Consultant for global product master covering equities, derivatives, and fixed income.
Director of Technology
Across Frontiers International
Jan 1998 - Dec 1999 (1 year 11 months)
Director of Technology for multimedia executive-training CD-ROM.
Consultant for futures & options, real-time TIBCO pricing cache.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
State University of New York at Buffalo
Bachelor of Science, Business Administration
Grade: 3.5/4.0
Activities and societies: Alcoa Educational Foundation Scholarship; Presidential Scholar, Clarkson University.
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a GPA of 3.5/4.0. Recipient of the Alcoa Educational Foundation Scholarship.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
AWS IAM
Teleport
Amazon EC2
Microsoft Azure
Amazon S3
Kubernetes
Helm
kaniko
Amazon EKS
Jenkins
GitHub Actions
AWS CodeBuild
Amazon Route 53
Node.js
Redis
Terraform
Jira
Python
Java
C#
Swift
JSON
Perl
C++
C
Traefik
RabbitMQ
Grafana
Prometheus
Ansible
AWS Lambda
Nunjucks
JUnit
Amazon Cognito
Git
Docker
Headlamp
SQL
AWS KMS
ArgoCD
Argo CD
Bash
Kustomize
Cert-manager
ChatGPT
AWS
Microsoft Entra ID
Google Gemini
Availability
Location
SpainAuthorized to work in
Website
gitopsmanager.ioSalary expectations
Social media
Job categories
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