I’m someone who can solve problems using various principles, disciplines, my experiences with systems, and what I have learned from the awesome people I have worked with so far. I have worked in academia, startup cultures, and smaller companies so I am comfortable wearing many hats. I'm an engineer who priotizes the availability, performance, efficiency, and reliability of the company's services and products. I enjoy working with and helping development teams become more efficient and successful. I'm flexible and enjoy learning when investigating new roles and responsibilities.
Site Reliability Engineer III, Zonar Systems
Jul, 2025 - Present
As a senior site reliability engineer (SRE3) and one of only two engineers running our services and applications for our team, my focus areas are on automation, costs, CI/CD and pipelines, and designing and rearchitecting our systems and applications. I still prioritize availability, latency, performance, efficiency, monitoring, and capacity planning for our team's applications and services.
GCP
K8s
Terraform
Helm
Python
Site Reliability Engineer II, Zonar Systems
Apr, 2021 - Present
As a site reliability engineer (SRE2) I share a basic set of responsibilities for the services we support and adhere to the core tenets of an SRE team. In short, I am resposibile for: availability, latency, performance, efficiency, change management, monitoring, emergency response, and capacity planning for our services.
GCP
Ansible
Terraform
VMWare
Legacy application uplifts to cloud native.
Systems Engineer II, Zonar Systems
May, 2018 - Mar, 20212 years 11 months
As a systems engineer and with the direction our team is going we are currently taking a more software development role, while focusing a transition of on premise applications and services to the cloud. This role will use a DevOps methodology, leadership vision, engineering strategies, and the experience of all team members to accomplish this migration and provide the business value desired. More will be written as this transition solidifies.
Monitoring with Icinga/Nagios
NetApp
Puppet
Juniper Network Equipment
Extrahop
Systems Engineer I, Zonar Systems
Oct, 2017 - Apr, 20186 months
As a systems engineer at Zonar Systems I am responsible for monitoring, maintaining, and deploying all internal and external facing services and systems. My primary customers are Zonar’s developers and customers in the form of the production systems we operate. As a System Engineers at Zonar I embody the same general principles and general skill sets that DevOps engineers maintain, but with a more significant focus on systems related knowledge and efforts.
Systems Admin / Engineer, University of Washington Bothell
Sep, 2015 - Aug, 20171 year 11 months
A Systems Administrator and Engineer for the University of Washington Bothell. My main roles and responsibilities were engineering and administrating the CSS faculty and student computer systems and laboratories. This included GPU machines, research machines, student work stations, and remote machines. I focused on work with open source technologies and using multiple Linux distributions to facilitate student and faculty's needs.
Created and wrote automated Ubuntu Install: https://askubuntu.com/questions/806820/how-do-i-create-a-completely-unattended-install-of-ubuntu-desktop-16-04-1-lts
Ubuntu
SaltStack
Cacti
Nagios
CentOS
VMWare
Tutor / Lab Assistant, Edmonds Community College
Sep, 2014 - Jun, 20159 months
A tutor and lab assistant for various Linux classes at Edmonds Community College.
Xen Cloud Platform, XCP, Xenserver
Saltstack
ClassStack: https://github.com/grantmcwilliams/ClassStack
CentOS 6.6
CS 125 Linux/Unix I
CS 126 Linux/Unix II
CS 225 Unix Shell Programming
Python
Bash
Postgres
C++
PHP
GCP
Ansible
Terraform
Computer Science and Software Engineering, Bachelors, The University of Washington
Jun, 2017 - Jan, 2015
Chewbacca of Systems , Lance Kett
Awarded on: Mar 14, 2019
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Skateboarding
Golfing
International Travel
Open Source
Brandon is a guy who does work.