Brent Lemons

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About Brent Lemons

I build and run engineering organizations that keep mission-critical cloud platforms operating at scale.Currently leading a large engineering organization at AWS Professional Services. The work I'm most proud of: identifying an unmet need for resilience expertise, writing the business case, securing executive investment, and building the team that scaled the AWS Resilience Practice from zero to $15M+ annual revenue across three global regions. That effort produced multi-region operations best practices, SRE methodologies, chaos engineering programs, incident response frameworks, and operational runbooks now adopted enterprise-wide across a $287M active pipeline.Before AWS, I led the engineering organization at EmployBridge through a full cloud transformation — migrating from legacy on-premises infrastructure to AWS, implementing CI/CD pipelines, Agile practices, and SOC 2 compliance frameworks, and cutting infrastructure costs by 35% while improving system availability.I hold all 15 AWS certifications (Gold Jacket), including DevOps Engineer Professional, Solutions Architect Professional, Security Specialty, and Advanced Networking Specialty. I stay close to the technical work — I'm currently building a real-time weather data platform from scratch in Rust on AWS, which keeps me honest about what's actually hard at the infrastructure level.Career highlights:• Founded AWS Resilience Practice — $15M+ revenue, three global regions,$287M active pipeline• Led 70+ person engineering org through Rackspace-to-AWS cloud migration at EmployBridge (35% cost reduction, SOC 2 implementation)• Architected multi-region active/active migration for Fortune 50 CPG manufacturer across AWS, Azure, and GCP• Amazon Bar Raiser — 500+ interviews; authored global Manager Role Guidelines for AWS Professional Services• AWS Gold Jacket recipient — all 15 certifications