Brandon Riley

Brandon Riley has extensive work experience in the IT industry. Brandon started their career at Inacom Information Systems, where they served as a Systems Engineer responsible for Y2K remediation and installation of compute and network infrastructure for major banks and financial institutions. Brandon then joined Harland Clarke as a Network Engineer III, managing a large Windows 2000 network and ensuring high uptime for mission-critical systems. Riley later worked at The Clearing House as a Senior Distributed Systems Engineer, where they played a key role in setting up a new data center and was eventually promoted to Director, leading a team of infrastructure engineers. Brandon also worked at Virtual Insanity as a Storage/VMware Blogger, providing insights and commentary on these topics. Additionally, Riley was selected as a Gestalt IT Field Day Delegate, participating in presentations and discussions with IT product vendors and thought leaders.

Brandon Riley attended Guilford Technical Community College from 1993 to 1997. Brandon did not obtain a degree or specify a field of study during this time. In terms of certifications, they obtained the following: Amazon Web Services Solutions Architect - Associate from Amazon Web Services (AWS) in December 2022, EMC Datacenter Architect - Storage Networking Design Specialist from EMC Corp. in March 2013, EMC Symmetrix Solutions Specialist from EMC Corp. in 2012, Cisco Certified Networking Associate - CCNA from Cisco in 2008, and Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer - MCSE from Microsoft in 1997. Brandon also has additional certifications including Amazon Web Services Cloud Practitioner and VMware Certified Professional - VCP4 and VCP5, but the dates of completion are not specified.