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Brian Simons

@briansimons

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Engineering leader at Lendio who cut CI/CD build wait times from 30 minutes to 8 and keeps platform teams accountable.

United States

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At Lendio, I lead DevOps, IT, Banking Platform, Identity, and InfoSec teams. I delivered the infrastructure and governance for the company’s 2026 AI strategy, including Claude Enterprise rollout and a foundation for MCP server hosting.

I’ve improved platform reliability and delivery at Lendio, maintaining 100% uptime through a record revenue day and cutting per-build CI/CD wait times from about 30 minutes to 8. I also helped launch three Embedded Marketplace partners with clean production launches.

Before that, I rebuilt Lendio’s engineering platform with Terraform, Kubernetes, and Docker, reducing application spin-up from days to minutes. Across my roles, I’ve worked on infrastructure operations, security, compliance, and cost stewardship, including owning Lendio’s SOC 2 Type II compliance program.

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Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Sr. Director, DevOps & IT

Current

Lendio

Jan 2022 - Present (4 years 9 months)

Leading DevOps, IT, Banking Platform, Identity, and InfoSec teams. Delivered AI infrastructure strategy, maintained 100% uptime during record revenue days, and managed multi-vendor technology spend with significant savings.

AWS Terraform Kubernetes Docker Cloudflare Okta CircleCi Datadog New Relic Linux SOC2 AI Governance vendor negotiation

Director, DevOps

Lendio

May 2019 - Jan 2022 (2 years 8 months)

Scaled infrastructure 17x during Covid-19, led Kubernetes migration from Chef, and rebuilt the engineering platform on Terraform, Kubernetes, and Docker, reducing application spin-up from days to minutes.

Terraform Kubernetes Docker AWS Infrastructure as Code Platform Engineering

Director, IT Operations & Security

Kuali

Jul 2017 - May 2019 (1 year 10 months)

Led IT operations and security, turned around a struggling DevOps team, and established clear operating norms and engineering practices aligned with company culture.

IT Operations Security DevOps Team Leadership

IT Operations Manager

Entrata

Dec 2013 - Jul 2017 (3 years 7 months)

Redesigned change management and infrastructure-as-code practices, raising change success rate from 31% to 99%, reducing MTTR from 4 days to 5 minutes, and lifting uptime from 90% to 99.99%.

Change Management Infrastructure as Code Incident Management Uptime Optimization

IT Manager

Vérité

Nov 2010 - Dec 2013 (3 years 1 month)

Maintained 99.99% uptime for enterprise clients, migrated infrastructure to AWS with infrastructure-as-code automation, and mitigated a 2-month DDoS attack with zero downtime.

AWS Infrastructure as Code DDoS Mitigation Uptime Management