Kevin Broderick

Platform & AI Infrastructure Engineer
London, UK | +44 7561 722 037 | kbroder@syzygysys.io
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Professional Summary

Platform Engineer with 25+ years transforming complex systems into reliable, automated infrastructure. Specializing in legacy modernization, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), and AI/automation integration. Track record: 30-40% cost reduction, 99.99% uptime across platfoorm services. Led cross-functional teams using Agile/Scrum methodologies. Strong stakeholder management across technical and executive levels. Currently pioneering agent-collaborative engineering at SyzygySys.

Core Technical Skills

Platform Engineering:
Microservices architecture, Terraform, Terragrunt, HCL, AWS, Azure DevOps, Linux, VMware, Atlassian Suite
Site Reliability Engineering:
Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, SLO/SLA management, Performance optimization, Incident response
Development & Automation:
Python (FastAPI, asyncio, pytest), Bash, SQL, JavaScript, CI/CD (Jenkins, GitLab), DevOps, GitOps, Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
AI/ML Integration:
Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) governance, NATS message persistence, Model Context Protocol (MCP), Agent-Human interfaces, OpenLLM, vLLM, Ollama inference runtimes, LLaMA, Mistral, GPT, Deepseek model deployment, OpenAI ChatGPT, Anthropic Claude
Security & Compliance:
IAM/RBAC, WAF, Firewalls, Secrets management, Zero-trust architecture, Policy-as-code, Software Bill of Materials (SBOM), Open Policy Agent (OPA)/Rego
Data & Storage:
PostgreSQL, Redis, Amazon S3, Query optimization, Connection pooling, Time-series databases

Professional Experience

Founder & Chief Architect
SyzygySys
May 2025 - Present | Remote
Building Agentic Collaboration Ecosphere (ACE) - self-aware infrastructure control plane (80% MVP complete)
  • Designed self-operating ecosystem integrating Jira, GitHub, Docker, Prometheus, and Grafana across 40+ microservices
  • Implemented crypto-signed audit trails with immutable reasoning and action logs supporting idempotent replay
  • Achieved 100% service validation coverage with self-diagnostics and compliance engine
  • Developed Open Core architecture enabling zero vendor lock-in and sovereign deployment capabilities
  • Reduced service onboarding time from 2 weeks to 2 hours via specification templates
  • Pioneered autonomous agent collaboration systems as development partners in control plane
Senior SysOps Engineer → Platform SRE Engineer
YouLend
January 2024 - May 2025 | London, UK
Promoted to Platform Engineer driving reliability initiatives
  • Delivered £325,000 annual AWS cost reduction via automated right-sizing and resource optimization
  • Created 90% playbook coverage, automating 100+ incident response scenarios
  • Achieved 80% false positive reduction through intelligent threshold tuning
  • Optimized database performance with 100ms query improvement via strategic indexing
  • Managed 500+ resources under Terraform/GitOps infrastructure as code
  • Maintained 99.99% uptime for £4 billion+ merchant financing platform
  • Collaborated with 5-person engineering team using Agile/Scrum methodologies
Career Transition & Professional Development
September 2022 - December 2023 | US to UK
  • Completed international relocation and UK residency establishment
Network & Systems Engineer
Dolan NW LLC
December 2013 - September 2022 | Portland, OR, USA
  • Migrated B2B/B2C platform with 1 million+ SKU ecommerce to hybrid cloud architecture
  • Led disaster recovery efforts restoring 100+ employees after fire/tornado incidents
  • Achieved 80% operational capacity within 7 days from total facility loss
  • Managed infrastructure supporting hundreds of employees across dozens of servers
  • Collaborated with development, operations, and business teams
Senior Network Engineer
Accretive Technology Group
November 2005 - December 2013 | Seattle, WA, USA
  • Maintained 40Gbps+ global video streaming infrastructure at 99.99% availability
  • Reduced incident response time from hours to minutes through monitoring improvements
  • Led engineering teams in 24/7 Network Operations Center (NOC) operations
  • Coordinated with clients and cross-functional teams on infrastructure projects
Senior Backbone Network Engineer
Internap
1998 - 2001 | Seattle, WA, USA
  • Managed Fortune 500 backbone infrastructure operations and support
  • Achieved 50% deployment time reduction through process automation improvements
  • Built and trained 15-operator 24x7 NOC team from ground up
  • Established monitoring and operational standards for SRE practices

Key Achievements

Disaster Recovery Excellence Successfully restored operations for 100+ staff after catastrophic facility losses (twice)
Cost Optimization £325,000 saved at YouLend, 35% reduction at Dolan through infrastructure optimization
Scale Management Scaled systems from SMB to enterprise (100,000+ merchants)
Innovation Impact 90% manual operations reduction, compressed platform standup from 12 months to 30 days

Current Projects

SyzygySys ACE Platform

Self-orchestrating infrastructure control plane featuring Local Agent Proxy (LAP::CORE) integrations, Epistemic Humility Index (EHI) governed agent autonomy levels, StateGuard specification compliance, and SyzygySys Diagnostic Framework (SDF) achieving 100% service coverage.

Key Platform Innovations

Open Source Contributions: 15+ public repositories available on request

Education

Associates of Science
Seattle Central Community College

Continuous professional development through practical implementation and industry certifications

Technical Keywords

Platform Engineering SRE Terraform AWS Python FastAPI DevOps Infrastructure as Code Security Disaster Recovery AI Integration Machine Learning Agile Scrum Kubernetes Docker Microservices Cloud Architecture Cost Optimization Database Optimization PostgreSQL Redis Prometheus Grafana Datadog CI/CD GitOps Monitoring Observability High Availability Zero-Trust Security