About Aslan Brooke

Aslan Brooke

Professional Summary

Technology infrastructure and DevSecOps leader with a long-track record from software engineering to executive leadership across healthcare and SaaS platforms. Career progression includes software programmer, software engineer, DevOps engineer, systems leadership, director and senior director roles, and currently vice president with ownership of technology infrastructure strategy.

Core outcomes across roles include platform modernization, cloud architecture, CI/CD and GitOps enablement, infrastructure security and incident response leadership, vendor and contract optimization, and cross-functional team leadership across global organizations.

Vendor and product depth includes AWS and EKS ecosystems (including Karpenter, ArgoCD, Goldilocks, and VPA), Cloudflare, Heroku, Snowflake, Datadog, CloudZero, Vanta, Crowdstrike, Firehydrant, Tenable, OneTrust, HackerOne, Jira, Okta, Jamf, Tableau, and enterprise OpenAI/ChatGPT integration.

Scope of practice also includes FinOps cost allocation and forecasting, observability and SIEM strategy, compliance automation, automation engineering with GitHub Workflows and Python, and applied AI adoption to replace low-code tooling with custom internal automation.

Experience

Evidation Health

Vice President, Technology Infrastructure | Apr 2026 – Present

In my new role I hope to do the following:

  • Translate business strategy into infrastructure leverage
  • Create a system that measures what actually matters
  • Align stakeholders around shared definitions of success
  • Continuously adapt through tight feedback loops
  • Implement enterprise AI strategies and enable teams to maximize AI utility across the organization

Sr. Director, Technology Infrastructure | Dec 2024 – Apr 2026

Led technology infrastructure at Evidation Health supporting consumer and clinical research platforms at the intersection of real-world evidence and mobile health data. Accountable for cloud infrastructure, DevOps, IT, DevSecOps, and observability across a multi-team org.

  • Drove vendor cost optimization by directly negotiating agreements and coordinating a multi-vendor portfolio to maximize FinOps outcomes.
  • Led security incident response across critical supply chain events — analyzed blast radius, directed secret rotations, and confirmed Evidation was not exploited.
  • Directed dual-track modernization: replaced self-hosted BI with Snowflake for managed analytics and eliminated a low-code SaaS platform by building AI-driven automation in-house, cutting licensing costs and improving integration.
  • Drove AWS cost reduction via advanced EKS tooling including Karpenter, lowering cloud node count and generating vendor agreement savings (FinOps Chain Reaction).
  • Deployed AWS ECR Pull Through Cache (PTC), improving availability and scalability for all images including Cilium, preventing upstream registry outage impacts.

Director, DevOps Engineering | Apr 2023 – Dec 2024

Led technology infrastructure at Evidation Health across multi-region, multi-cloud platforms (AWS, Kubernetes, Snowflake, Cloudflare) in support of health research at scale — spanning DevOps, DevSecOps, IT, Observability, and TechOps.

  • Assumed full ownership of company-wide infrastructure in July 2023 — unified DevOps, IT, and Observability under one team, defining org structure, on-call frameworks, and financial accountability across all hosting and vendor actuals.
  • Consolidated costs and improved security by shutting down underutilized legacy AWS accounts and services, achieving material annual savings.
  • Modernized CI/CD by migrating from community GitHub Actions Runner Controller to enterprise Autoscaling Runner Scale Sets on Kubernetes — eliminating rate-limiting and unlocking GitHub Enterprise support.
  • Championed Go and Pulumi adoption, grounded in the rationale that core tooling (Pulumi, Terraform, Kubernetes) is written in Go — enabling engineers to debug upstream dependencies. Authored a Terraform Provider Debugging Runbook from a real provider failure.
  • Led vendor migration from self-hosted to SaaS, coordinating US and international transitions covering IAM, Snowflake connectivity, SAML/Okta, and database tooling — reducing operational overhead.

Sr. Manager, DevOps | Dec 2021 – Apr 2023

Managed DevOps engineering at Evidation Health across multi-region AWS environments, supporting a consumer platform and a growing portfolio of research study products.

  • Architected and led a near zero-downtime migration of the consumer app from shared to private Heroku, designing the cutover plan and coordinating across DevOps, backend, and project management to eliminate production risk.
  • Managed staff executing an infrastructure platform initiative across business units, consolidating engineering docs into a unified wiki and enabling consistent IaC patterns (Terraform, Kubernetes on AWS EKS) across new and migrated products.
  • Owned end-to-end incident response — managing containment, eradication, and recovery following formal processes, coordinating with the security team, and implementing lessons learned.
  • Managed AWS FinOps and vendor procurement, correcting forecasting errors in AWS costs for a multi-million-user application and optimizing via AWS Marketplace and account consolidation.
  • Scaled DevOps operational cadence by restructuring team meetings, coordinating on-call coverage, and overseeing CI/CD migrations from CircleCI/Jenkins to GitHub Actions and Kubernetes version upgrades across all clusters.

Zynx Health

Sr. Director, Research and Development and DevSecOps Engineering | Dec 2020 – Dec 2021

Scaled infrastructure and DevSecOps operations at Zynx Health, managing infrastructure and QA teams across multiple SaaS platforms.

  • Migrated all source code from private Git Bucket to hosted Bitbucket, coordinating staff and introducing Git LFS.
  • Implemented GitOps for legacy applications, storing configuration, deployment control, and auditing in Git.
  • Managed two teams: infrastructure and QA — 5 FTEs and 5 contractors across systems engineering, database engineering, QA, and QA automation.
  • Oversaw four SaaS production environments with a 24/7 response team.
  • Researched and documented Epic EHR data extraction for an analytics processing product.

Sr. Director, Technology, Security Officer | Oct 2018 – Dec 2020

Led technology infrastructure and security strategy at Zynx Health, overseeing a large multi-disciplinary engineering organization.

  • Oversaw design and development of a HIPAA-compliant AWS cloud-native clinical data analytics platform.
  • Managed team of 30–40 (FTEs and contractors) across developer, QA, QA automation, systems, and database engineering.
  • Oversaw four SaaS production environments with a 24/7 response team.
  • Stewarded $Ms USD annually in salaries, vendor contracts, infrastructure, and software.

Director, Technology, Security Officer | Oct 2016 – Oct 2018

Directed technology and security at Zynx Health, including FHIR API development and vendor consolidation across global teams.

  • Oversaw design and development of a FHIR API for medical content and a developer program for over 1 year.
  • Consolidated 3 offshore and 2 onshore development partners into 1 primary offshore vendor over 1.5 years.
  • Managed team of 30–40 (FTEs and contractors) across developer, QA, QA automation, systems, and database engineering.
  • Oversaw three SaaS production environments with a 24/7 response team.
  • Stewarded $Ms USD annually in salaries, vendor contracts, infrastructure, and software.

Director, Development Operations, Security Officer | Mar 2016 – Oct 2016

Managed infrastructure security and operations at Zynx Health as Security Officer and DevOps leader.

  • Fulfilled Security Officer duties, securing a HIPAA-regulated application and passing a full compliance assessment.
  • Stewarded $M USD annually in salaries, infrastructure, and software.
  • Managed 7-person team overseeing 450+ virtual and physical servers (half RHEL, half Windows Server).
  • Oversaw three SaaS production environments covering security, compliance, and a 24/7 response team.

Manager of Development Operations | Mar 2015 – Feb 2016

Led infrastructure modernization at Zynx Health, transitioning from data centers to AWS and adopting DevOps practices.

  • Managed 7-person team overseeing 450+ virtual and physical servers (half RHEL, half Windows Server).
  • Migrated 150+ servers from physical data centers to AWS.
  • Oversaw three SaaS production environments with a 24/7 response team.
  • Stewarded $M USD annually in salaries, infrastructure, and software.
  • Led DevOps adoption, streamlining operations and reducing SaaS platform base costs to 1/5 of traditional platforms.

Lead Systems Engineer | Feb 2013 – Mar 2015

Built highly available cloud infrastructure at Zynx Health for customer-facing production systems and continuous delivery.

  • Architected and built highly available AWS systems for a customer-facing production application.
  • Built automated continuous delivery pipelines from source code to production.
  • Built an automated monitoring, troubleshooting, and recovery (“immune”) system for production.

DevOps Engineer | Sep 2011 – Feb 2013

Engineered CI/CD and deployment automation at Zynx Health for reliable SaaS application delivery.

  • Built a distributed automated CI testing system using 40 nodes against a SaaS app in a production-like environment.
  • Developed automated build and deployment scripts for a legacy .NET application.
  • Managed production release meetings and executed rolling deployments of a SaaS application.

Software Engineer | Jan 2008 – Aug 2011

Developed SaaS applications for healthcare delivery at Zynx Health.

  • Built a web-based workflow management and reporting SaaS application for hospitals.
  • Made incremental improvements to a Web 2.0 Content Management SaaS for hospitals.
  • Built B2B integration with the Cerner CPOE system used by hospitals.

InfoQ

News Editor | Dec 2012 – Jan 2014

Covered DevOps trends and industry innovation as News Editor for a technology audience.

Alpha Retail Technology

Software Developer / Technology Coordinator | Nov 2005 – Oct 2007

Built point-of-sale systems and infrastructure at Alpha Retail Technology.

  • Built a point-of-sale transaction processing application in VB6/SQL Server 2000 (Alpha Sell).
  • Developed software controllers for POS hardware: biometrics, receipt printers, pin pads, cash drawers, and pole displays.
  • Designed and built a distributed application deployment system in VB6/SQL Server 2000.

Bally Total Fitness

Database Application Developer / Personal Trainer | Oct 2003 – Nov 2005

Developed personal fitness management software while working as a Personal Trainer at Bally Total Fitness.

  • Programmed a fitness management application using VBA and Access.
  • Built an algorithm to generate workout routines based on client fitness history and goals.
  • Designed a database to track client data and report progress over time.

Medical Manager R and D

Software Developer | Oct 2001 – Jul 2003

Optimized healthcare reporting systems at Medical Manager R and D.

  • Cut WAN transmission time by 95% for a reporting tool by rewriting C/C++ algorithms.
  • Fixed defects and added enhancements to a C/C++ report-building tool.
  • Analyzed legacy C/C++ code using static, dynamic, and performance analysis techniques.

University of Texas at Austin

Software Developer / Research Assistant | Oct 2000 – Aug 2001

Contributed to distributed systems research at the University of Texas at Austin.

  • Built Java software simulations for replicated databases, contributing to Computer Science research at UT Austin.
  • Co-authored the published paper “Data Synchronization for Distributed Simulations.”

M/D Totco

Software Programmer | Jun 1997 – Sep 1998

Developed test and device driver software at M/D Totco for data acquisition hardware.

  • Built test software for a Data Acquisition Device (DAQ) in VB6, enabling thorough hardware testing.
  • Debugged a Windows NT C device driver in a proprietary network product, eliminating a costly defect.

Education

  • Executive MBA, Quantic School of Business and Technology (2021–2022) — Specializations: Strategic Thinking, Startup Entrepreneurship, US Business Law
  • M.S. Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology (2014–2017) — GPA 4.0
  • B.S. Computer Science & Mathematics, The University of Texas at Austin (1997–2001)
  • High School Diploma, Texas Academy of Math and Science (1995–1997)

Certifications & Professional Development

  • Pragmatic Institute Foundations (Dec 2019)
  • Hearst Leadership Development Program — Harvard Business Publishing (Oct 2019)
  • IT Technology Management — UCLA Extension (Mar 2014)
  • Linux/Unix — UCLA Extension (Dec 2013)
  • CIW JavaScript Specialist (Aug 2011)
  • Project Management — UCLA Extension (Sep 2010)
  • Systems Analysis — UCLA Extension (Sep 2010)
  • BizTalk 2006 — QuickStart (Jan 2008)
  • Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (C# / SQL Server) (Oct 2007)
  • Master Personal Fitness Trainer — NPTI (Aug 2003)
  • Nutritional Consultant — NPTI (Aug 2003)
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect — Associate (Apr 2014 – Apr 2017)
  • ScrumMaster — Scrum Alliance (Jan 2010 – Jan 2012)
  • UML Fundamentals — OMG (Sep 2006 – Sep 2011)
  • Certified Personal Fitness Trainer — NASM (Apr 2004 – Apr 2006)

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This page summarizes a career spanning software engineering, platform operations, and strategic technology leadership—focused on building teams and systems that scale responsibly.