Brian Oktavec
Experience

From DevOps automation to leading a security platform.

Full role history below, starting with a co-op at Georgia Tech Research Institute through leading AT&T's Sensitive Data Discovery platform. Or grab the one-page version.

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Jul 2026 — Aug 2026

Threat Research Engineer

· Sublime Security
Refactored legacy routing patterns and migrated services from regex-based routing to Hono, improving maintainability and consistency across internal web applications.
Used AI-assisted development extensively with Claude to accelerate refactoring, including custom repository-specific AI guidance and conventions.
TypeScript · Hono · Claude
Aug 2024 — Jul 2026

Lead Cybersecurity Engineer

· AT&T
Technical lead and primary platform owner for a Sensitive Data Discovery platform spanning onboarding, scanning, validation, remediation, reporting, and compliance across thousands of enterprise applications.
Helped cut annual operating cost from $8.3M to $3.5M and team size from 57 to 28, while increasing scanned/remediated applications 2.22×.
Lead developer for a full-stack SPA (React/TypeScript + Fastify), owning Azure integration with Service Bus, Redis Cache, and secrets management.
Python · React · TypeScript · Fastify · Azure · Kubernetes
Jul 2022 — Aug 2024

Software Engineer II

· Endava
Built full-stack web applications and SDK integrations for Financial Services and IT Consulting clients using React, TypeScript, Node.js, AWS, and PostgreSQL.
Led backend development for a prototype merchant application integrating a corporate client's SDK; built automated test coverage to ~90% with Mocha and Chai.
React · TypeScript · Node.js · PostgreSQL · AWS
Jan 2022 — Jul 2022

Software Developer

· Techquidation Inc.
Led development of a label-printing SaaS using Python, SQL, NiceLabel, and VBScript, reducing processing time by 90%.
Troubleshot and improved Next.js application functionality while contributing to feature planning and technical documentation across client-facing projects.
Python · SQL · NiceLabel · Next.js
Aug 2019 — May 2021

DevOps Co-op

· Georgia Tech Research Institute
Automated application provisioning with Ansible, reducing deployment time from VM creation to a fully functioning application by 80%.
Maintained and troubleshot virtual machines and Kubernetes clusters supporting application availability and reliability.
Built Ansible and Bash automation for Kubernetes cluster validation and remediation, reducing validation from hours to minutes.
Ansible · Bash · Kubernetes · Linux

Education & certifications

University of Alabama in Huntsville
M.Sc. in Information Systems
Huntsville, AL · 2022 — 2023
Kennesaw State University
B.Sc. in Computer Engineering
Kennesaw, GA · 2017 — 2022
AWS Certified Developer — Associate
Jul 2022
Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
Sept 2024

Skills

Languages
Python · JavaScript · TypeScript · HTML · CSS
Frameworks & Libraries
React · Express · Flask · Fastify · Hono · Tailwind CSS · Playwright · Vitest · Pandas
Databases
PostgreSQL · MySQL · MongoDB
Cloud & Infrastructure
AWS · Azure · Terraform · Docker · Kubernetes · Linux · Cloudflare
Dev Tools
Claude · GitHub Copilot · GitHub Actions · Git · GitLab · Postman · n8n