Fractional CTO, platform, and reliability engineering for small biotech teams, closing the gap between research code and systems that stay up.
Leadership, coaching, and advisory for teams that need senior technical judgment. Technical strategy, roadmap development, hiring guidance, team structuring, and hands-on delivery oversight for specific outcomes.
Assessment of existing infrastructure, platform, and software architecture against your current and future goals.
Designing technical hiring pipelines, writing role definitions, building interview rubrics, and conducting or advising on technical interviews.
Hands-on design and implementation of cloud infrastructure, developer platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and internal tooling, built for reliability, scalability, and operability.
SLO/SLA definition, incident response design, observability stack implementation, on-call program structure, and post-mortem culture.
Custom software development for specific product or internal tooling needs. Emphasis on clean architecture, maintainability, and a clean handoff.
Production-grade pipelines, notebooks, and experiment tracking that give small biotech teams the computational-biology infrastructure they need on day one, without hiring a DevOps engineer.
A production-grade microscopy quantification platform that turns multi-gigabyte CZI files into per-cell reports: research code re-architected with autoscaling, CI/CD, logging, and a custom UI.
Custom software architecture and delivery of an agentic library system with a shared-memory layer for incubators and their resident companies.
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Brent’s background runs from early-stage startups through Wayfair’s ~4,000-engineer org. The practice is focused on biotech and life sciences, where small teams routinely carry production responsibility without dedicated platform or DevOps support.
He led platform and SRE organizations of up to 32 engineers at Wayfair, restored Nursa’s application uptime from 84% to 99.97%, and stood up the SRE function at IBM Resilient across HIPAA, ISO 27001, and GDPR regulated environments.
Start with a 15-minute intro call, or send an email. We’ll talk through where your systems are today and what it would take to make them reliable.
Pick a time that works and it’s booked: a quick call to see whether I’m the right fit for what you’re building.
Pick a timePrefer email? Send a note about your team and systems and I’ll get back to you, usually the same day.
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