Christian Bryndum

Christian Bryndum

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VP of Cloud and Hosted Operations
San Francisco, California, United States

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  • Agiloft
    VP of Cloud and Hosted Operations
    Agiloft
    Sep 2023 - Current (3 years)
    Leading the transformation of Cloud and Hosted Operations for a global leader in Contract Lifecycle Management. My focus is on modernizing our infrastructure stack, instilling a GitOps culture, and ensuring enterprise-grade reliability and security for our global customer base. Key Impact: Team Evolution: Rebuilt a traditional system administration team into a modern DevOps/CloudOps organization, establishing GitOps as the standard cultural and technical framework. Emergency DR Migration: Orchestrated a critical disaster recovery migration to AWS during a major incident, restoring 95% of customer workloads in a single weekend with zero data loss. Cost Optimization: Delivered a 20% reduction in AWS billing through strategic PPA negotiatio
  • Evisort
    Director of DevOps
    Evisort
    Mar 2021 - Apr 2023 (2 years 2 months)
    Managed a global DevOps and SRE team supporting 20+ AI-powered contract management applications. Focused on engineering velocity and platform stability during a period of rapid customer growth. Key Impact: CI/CD Architecture: Designed and implemented a zero-downtime CI/CD pipeline, reducing deployment time-to-value from over 5 hours to under 60 minutes. Observability: Reduced MTTA to minutes by implementing structured logging, tracing, and consolidated monitoring systems (OpenTelemetry/Honeycomb). Cloud Efficiency: Partnered with executive leadership to reduce AWS costs by 20% through a large-scale Graviton migration. Incident Management: Standardized global incident response, RCA (5 Whys), and Operational Readiness Review (ORR) process
  • VoiceBase Inc
    Vice President Operations (DevOps)
    VoiceBase Inc
    May 2020 - Mar 2021 (11 months)
    Owned the DevOps roadmap and infrastructure strategy for a leading speech analytics SaaS provider. Aligned engineering efforts with business revenue through structured OKRs and rigorous capacity planning. Key Impact: Efficiency & COGS: Reduced COGS by 12% through optimized instance autoscaling and infrastructure rightsizing. Contract Negotiation: Renegotiated colocation contracts to increase compute power by 40% at zero additional cost. Scaling Production: Scaled environments across 7 colocation centers and 400 AWS instances, maintaining 99.99% availability for $10M+ in revenue-generating services. Compliance: Drove first-time PCI DSS and SOC 2 certifications by standardizing security policies across the global organization.
  • VoiceBase Inc
    Senior Director Of Operations (DevOps)
    VoiceBase Inc
    Feb 2019 - May 2020 (1 year 4 months)
    Responsible for hiring and training a global DevOps team for the leading speech analytics SaaS company in the world. Scaled and oversaw all NonProd and Prod environments of 7 collocations, 800 physical servers, and 400 AWS instances supporting 10$$MM of company revenue with SLA to 99.97% reliability and 99.99% availability. Reduced platform CI/CD time from 8 – 10 hours to 90 minutes by implementing processes(blue/green deployments), tooling and utilizing BitTorrent to distribute language models and analytics Managed the production cloud solutions that powers speech analytics for companies such as Twilio, CenturyLink, Home Depot, Genesys, Nasdaq and ProActive Dealer Solutions Drove PCI DSS certification for production in 6 months with team o
  • VoiceBase Inc
    Director Of Operations (DevOps)
    VoiceBase Inc
    Mar 2016 - Feb 2019 (3 years)
    As the Director of Ops I am responsible for keeping the lights on the worlds leading speech analytics platform. Consisting of more than 10K computer cores in hybrid SaaS and data center environent, this is achieved with a team top DevOps talent and the use of the latest DevOps tools; Jenkins, Foreman, Chef, Zabbix, Loggly, ELK, Klipfolio and many others.
  • GT Nexus
    Director, IT Infrastructure
    GT Nexus
    May 2013 - Mar 2016 (2 years 11 months)
    Oversaw an IT infrastructure of two datacenters, 100 physical servers, and 1,200 virtual servers while supervising the six-member Global Infrastructure team for a provider of supply chain and logistics management cloud solutions with 1,000 staff Maintained, updated and optimized cloud solutions that administered global supply chains for Fortune 500 and 100 companies, including Caterpillar, Pfizer, Adidas, DHL, Levi’s, UPS, HP, Patagonia, Columbia, Lenovo and P&G Ensured 100% uptime for internal systems supporting production applications by designing systems for fault tolerance, high availability and the elimination of single points of failure. Created and implemented processes for production platform hardware purchasing, expansion and maint
  • GT Nexus
    IT Infrastructure Manager
    GT Nexus
    May 2012 - May 2013 (1 year 1 month)
    As the IT Infrastructure manager my responsibilities include but not limited to management, implementation, installation and maintenance of the data centers, server, storage and networking infrastructure and up the OS level of the virtual infrastructure.
  • Iteon Consulting
    Sr. Network Engineer
    Iteon Consulting
    Jul 2011 - May 2012 (11 months)
  • Synarc
    Director of IT, Operations
    Synarc
    Jul 2008 - Mar 2011 (2 years 9 months)
    Developed a global IT operations strategy to map company objectives for improving operational efficiencies and employee productivity. Identified opportunities in cross-functional business processes and utilized the computer applications to automate tasks and improve efficiency. Reduced 2008 OpEX and CapEX by 50%. Consolidated 15 file, blackberry, and printer servers by optimizing a new VMWare infrastructure. Managed $3,000,000 global IT CapEX and OpEX budget covering 4 global offices with 200+ users. Directed a global team of 10 IT employees responsible for duties ranging from desktop support to server management. Maintained and supported Cisco LAN and WAN routers and switches. Maintained and supported Juniper IDP and Firewalls Provided 3
  • Synarc
    Data Communications Manager
    Synarc
    Mar 2008 - Jul 2008 (5 months)
    Directed the planning for remote hardware and communications facilities to develop and implement methodologies for analysis, installation and support of distributed processing client/server systems. Maintained and supported Exchange 2003, Active directory, Citrix, Cisco and Juniper networks/vpn solutions Oversaw the analysis, acquisition and installation of hardware, software and facilities. Managed the training and efforts of a staff engaged in systems and network planning, analysis and monitoring activities. Maintained and supported Cisco LAN and WAN routers and switches. Maintained and supported Juniper IDP and Firewalls Provided 3rd level support on MS services such as Active director, MS exchange and VMware ESX platforms. Provided
  • Synarc
    Network Engineer II/III
    Synarc
    Mar 2006 - Mar 2008 (2 years 1 month)
    Designed, managed and integrated 15 independant remote locations including 20 servers and 150+ workstations into new corporate AD including MPLS network, Exchange environment and file servers. Managed the integration of IT infrastructure for the company’s acquisition of 10 new international offices in 36 hours including new MPLS, Exchange, SQL and AD. Reduced data/telephone costs by $300,000 over 3 years by implementing MPLS Implemented proactive monitoring with 3rd party vendor of business critical systems to improve availability by receiving instant alerts in case of system failures. Designed and implemented low cost/high availability global data entry systems by leveraging Citrix remote desktop solutions.
  • Synarc
    MS Exchange Manager
    Synarc
    Aug 2004 - Mar 2006 (1 year 8 months)
    Designed and implemented global MS Exchange 2003 architecture from previous Exchange 5.5 Installed and maintained Mimosa email archive Managed 10 firewalls and WAN lines for all global offices. Managed and maintained all electronic communication systems. Designed and implemented IT SOPs in according to Good Clinical Practices industry standard. Maintain global server park and active directory.
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    IT Security Consultant
    EDB Gruppen
    Sep 1999 - May 2003 (3 years 9 months)
    Sales Engineer for NAI products such as virusscan, encryption, intrustion detection. Provided technical knowledge to sales team in client meetings. Designed and implemented a varied assortion of IT solutions for customers. Conducted on a monthly basis The Royal Danish Navy’s IT security course training sessions for 30 people. Visited customers and consulted with them regarding security and infrastructure improvements. Identified, recorded, and tracked security risks within customer IT infrastructures to provide customer business security risk analysis. Visited potential customers and consulted with them regarding antivirus, intrusion detection, firewall and infrastructure improvements. Designed and implemented antivirus, intrusion detectio
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  • Deakin University
    Bachelor of Computing (B.Comp, Information Systems
    Deakin University
    Jan 2003 - Jan 2004 (1 year 1 month)
    Bachelor of Computer Science
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    Datamatician, Computer Science
    Lyngby Uddannelsescenter
    Jan 1996 - Jan 1998 (2 years 1 month)
    Student, Computer Science
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    Data center consolidation
    Key stake holder in consolidation of 4 data centers to two. Ensure all infrastructure is inventoried, prepare consolidation plan, execute the plan including negotiating pricing and purchasing new hardware, implementing hardware and work closely with ProdOps teams to relocate databases and applications
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