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Brett McCully

Seattle,WA

Summary

An accomplished and technical leader with over 20 years of experience in customer-facing roles within the tech industry. As the founding manager of Google Cloud Engineering Support, I successfully built and scaled a global team of 50 engineers and 100 vendors, achieving customer satisfaction scores of 95% and 90% for top-tier and second-tier support, respectively. As a Staff Engineer, I was the Tech Lead for Google Workplace Engineering Support, building Google's first three-tier support processes, and the first Tech Lead of Google's Professional Services team, performing on-site deployments to Fortune 500 customers.

Overview

21
21
years of professional experience

Work History

Principal Software Engineer

Salesforce
Bellevue, WA
01.2019 - 01.2024

Product Owner, ACP AI (Autonomous Control Plane for Salesforce Core Infrastructure)

  • Built and maintained pipelines for AI research projects using 1P infrastructure data.
  • Performed ROI analysis for infrastructure AI projects
  • Provided mentorship and regular industry update presentations to the organization
  • Built error anomaly detection to detect customer impacting issues ~2hrs before traditional monitoring and metrics

Director, Software Engineering

Salesforce
Bellevue, WA
01.2019 - 01.2024

Network Automation Team

  • Managed the team that built the automated tools for Hardware Load Balancers
  • Lead the Engineering team that built the orchestration layer for private cross-VPS traffic using AWS PrivateLinks, reducing networking cost for internal traffic by 75%
  • Lead the Engineering team that implemented automated management of customer facing Virtual IPs and SSL certificates on Hardware Load Balancers in SFDC data centers

Hardware Infrastructure Automation

  • Reduced time to capacity from 3 months to 3 weeks through automation and policy changes.
  • Lead the Engineering team that built tools to automate hardware lifecycle management (OS install, configuration, repair, and repurpose)
  • Lead the Engineering team that automated the addition of new machine capacity to SFDC data centers
  • Established the Rack DevOps team to address and repair SF Core service infrastructure build failures

Partner Support Lead for Google Cloud Platform

GOOGLE
Seattle, WA
01.2003 - 01.2018
  • 3rd party joint product launches, establishing support operations for joint technical products and services (Rackspace, Pivotal, Red Hat, SUSE)
  • Developed support requirements and incentives for GCP Partner Program tiers
  • Launched Engineering Support programs for Tech Partners, Channel Partners, and Managed Service Providers
  • Establish operational relationships with MSPs and strategic partners
  • Develop operations qualification criteria, perform assessments, build training and enablement plan

Cloud Platform Engineering Support Manager

GOOGLE
Seattle, WA
05.2012 - 10.2016
  • Contributed to the launch of Google Cloud Platform by assessing the needs of the business, defining technical escalation processes, and finalizing support offerings.
  • Founding Manager for the Cloud Engineering Support team
  • Grew from 3 contractors to 50 FTE and 50 outsourced agents
  • Built Product Engagement Lead Program, providing trend analysis of product issues
  • Built Product Launch Review and Operational Readiness programs
  • Established consistent customer incident communication processes, and managed the consistency of platform-wide incident management practices.
  • Engineering Support lead for cross-functional Product Excellent initiatives
  • Contract Technical Approver for all GCP non-standard deals
  • Conducted 400+ Engineering and Program Manager interviews; hired 50+ for the Cloud Platform Engineering Support team.
  • Launched GCP Paid Support Offerings
  • Launched and scaled multi-tiered support organization
  • Avg 95+% CSAT for Platinum
  • Avg 90+% CSAT for Gold
  • Owned Support Policy
  • Cross-functional data access policy owner for GCP customer operations
  • Implemented operational changes to conform to new laws to (e.g. Model Contract Clauses for end of EU Safe Harbor, International Sanctions)
  • Performed support tooling needs assessment and managed development team
  • Performed annual budgeting and headcount planning.

Staff Technical Solutions Engineer

GOOGLE
Seattle, WA
01.2009 - 05.2012
  • Technical Lead and Architect for Large Customer Deployments
  • Lead project scoping, IT architecture change management, and software user migrations with large enterprise and government customers.
  • Performed Apps product data access audits for US Government certifications
  • Received background check clearance for Federal Public Trust and Law Enforcement agencies.
  • 1st Engineer on the Deployment team (now Professional Services)

Education

(B.S.) Bachelor of Science - Informatics

University of Washington
Seattle, WA

Skills

  • Cloud architecture
  • Team leadership
  • Mentorship and coaching
  • System architecture
  • Project planning
  • Distributed systems
  • Amazon web services
  • Python programming
  • Cloud infrastructure
  • Network automation
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Infrastructure automation
  • Data pipeline design
  • Data analysis

Timeline

Principal Software Engineer

Salesforce
01.2019 - 01.2024

Director, Software Engineering

Salesforce
01.2019 - 01.2024

Cloud Platform Engineering Support Manager

GOOGLE
05.2012 - 10.2016

Staff Technical Solutions Engineer

GOOGLE
01.2009 - 05.2012

Partner Support Lead for Google Cloud Platform

GOOGLE
01.2003 - 01.2018

(B.S.) Bachelor of Science - Informatics

University of Washington