I help scientific and technical organizations transform fragile research and operational platforms into scalable, production-ready systems.
Before
Manual & Reactive
Issues in spreadsheets. No visibility. Slow response times.
Your scientists spend more time waiting for analysis than doing science.
Deployments require tribal knowledge.
Nobody knows why failures happen.
The platform only works because one engineer understands it.
Infrastructure costs keep rising while reliability keeps falling.
You need senior technical leadership but are not ready for a full-time CTO.
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.
An internal scientific analysis platform re-architected from fragile research code into a production system: automated testing, CI/CD, autoscaling compute, SSO, and end-to-end observability.
Custom software architecture and delivery of an agentic library system with a shared-memory layer for incubators and their resident companies.
Research software that does not scale, fragile analysis pipelines, risky deployments, and engineers afraid to touch the system. I help organizations transform scientific platforms into scalable, observable, production-grade systems.
When organizations need technical leadership, architecture oversight, and strategic guidance but are not ready for a full-time executive hire.
I help teams improve reliability, automate operations, reduce incidents, and build infrastructure that scales with the business.
When off-the-shelf tools are not enough, I design and build custom platforms, internal tools, integrations, and workflow automation systems.
Architecture, scalability, security, and engineering assessments for investors, acquirers, and leadership teams.
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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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