Riley Branch
Riley builds and leads platform and engineering organizations that turn reliability, cloud economics, and delivery systems into business leverage, while remaining close enough to current technical work to exercise sound implementation judgment.
- Head of Platform/SRE
- VP of Engineering
Leadership record
Recent operating scope and attributable outcomes selected for rapid hiring evaluation.
Pura
Riley built and led the SRE and Platform Engineering organization.
- Built and led an 11-engineer SRE and Platform Engineering organization.
- The organization included four U.S.-based engineers.
- The organization included seven engineers in Vietnam.
Cloud economics
- 40% year-over-year cloud-spend reduction
- 60% monitoring-cost reduction
Organization outcomes during Riley's platform/SRE leadership at Pura.
Delivery and reliability
- 3x deployment frequency
- 45% MTTR reduction
- 99.95% SLA adherence
Organization outcomes during Riley's platform/SRE leadership at Pura.
Adobe
Senior Manager
Riley led the SRE team. Riley governed its material cloud operating scope.
- Led a 10-member SRE team.
- Operated 60+ Adobe Experience Manager environments.
- Governed $22M+ in annual AWS/GCP spend.
Work, writing, and career record
Direct access to recent projects, technical writing, issued patent contributions, and a concise résumé.
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