Brian Carpio

Engineering and AI leader. 28 years in technology, 17 building enterprise platforms, 14 leading cloud transformations.

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Career

Building platforms, and the teams that run them.

  1. 2025-Present

    OutcomeOps

    Founder

    Context Engineering for AI-assisted development, running in production at a Fortune 500 hospitality company. 16-hour tasks take 20 minutes.

  2. 2022-2024

    Gilead Sciences

    Interim Director of Cloud, AWS ProServe

    Stepped in to run the cloud org when the CIO asked for help, then led 55 engineers across 5 scrum teams. Account vending went from 30+ days to 45 minutes, and the CIO presented the work in an Innovation Talk at re:Invent 2023.

  3. 2019-2022

    Comcast

    Sr. Director of Architecture

    Promoted from Principal Architect within nine months. Led 8 architects plus the platform engineering and UX teams. The SEED platform took provisioning from 12-18 months to minutes.

  4. 2016-2017

    Liberty Mutual

    Chief Architect of DevOps, Xentaurs

    Ran engagements including Liberty Mutual, ASU, and Availity, and designed the firm's DevOps philosophy. Took over Liberty Mutual's struggling Docker migration and built the Fusion Platform, scaling from 3 applications to 300+ services with hundreds of daily deployments.

  5. 2014-2015

    Aetna

    Director of Cloud

    Built Utopia, a container platform with 100x better security defect density than the enterprise. The CISO made Docker a corporate mandate.

  6. 2012-2014

    Pearson

    Manager of Cloud Systems Development

    Promoted from architect to manager. Built and led the team behind Nibiru, a self-service AWS platform used by 70 development teams, with Gene Kim consulting on the transformation.

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Selected Writing

Outcomes over tools, since 2012.

  1. Centralized AWS Inspection with GWLB and Palo Alto

    Hub-and-spoke traffic inspection with Gateway Load Balancer, Palo Alto firewalls, and Transit Gateway, plus the one NLB setting that held it together.

  2. From DevOps to OutcomeOps

    Where the argument landed: context engineering for AI-assisted development, and the platform built to answer it.

  3. Context Engineering: The Next Evolution Beyond DevOps

    on outcomeops.ai ↗

    Where the idea gets its name: the shift from DevOps practices to context engineering for AI-assisted development.

  4. OutcomeOps KPIs: Measuring What Actually Matters

    on outcomeops.ai ↗

    How to measure an engineering organization by outcomes instead of activity — perfect pipelines still fail the business when you track the wrong metrics.

  5. DevOps Is the New Waste in 2023

    The argument that DevOps became the waste it was meant to eliminate — the thesis that led to everything since.

  6. How I Built a Self-Service Automation Platform

    Nibiru, a self-service AWS platform used by 70 development teams — platform engineering before the term existed.

  7. Managing a DevOps Team

    Why there is no such thing as a "DevOps team" — and what managing high-performing engineers actually takes.

  8. MongoDB Evolution

    Designing HA infrastructure on MongoDB from 1.4 — failover bugs reported upstream, 20M active mobile sessions at 28,000 TPS proven in third-party testing.

Recent Posts

The Fix Wasn't the Model. It Was One ADR.

I ran the same feature build on Grok twice. Between runs I changed nothing about the model or the prompt. I tightened one ADR and re-ingested it, and the second build fixed the governance violation on its own. Here is the before and after, including what the ADR could not fix.

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