March 15, 2026
Building Resilient Cloud Architectures
A practical guide to designing fault-tolerant systems on AWS, Azure, and GCP — covering redundancy patterns, chaos engineering, and cost trade-offs.
Enterprise Architect & Developer
Building scalable systems that drive business forward
I design and deliver enterprise-grade architectures, cloud platforms, and modern web applications — turning complex requirements into reliable, maintainable solutions.
About Me
I'm Eric Brand, an enterprise architect and full-stack developer with deep experience leading technology strategy across large organizations. I bridge the gap between business objectives and technical execution, ensuring that every system I build is production-ready, secure, and built to scale.
My work spans cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP), distributed systems design, API strategy, DevOps pipelines, and modern front-end development. Whether it's greenfield or modernization, I bring a pragmatic, results-driven approach to every engagement.
30+
Years in Tech
20+
Enterprise Projects
Cloud
AWS / Azure / GCP
Full Stack
Front to Infra
Areas of Expertise
Enterprise Architecture
Designing system-of-systems architectures that align technology investments with business goals — TOGAF, domain-driven design, and event-driven patterns.
Cloud & Infrastructure
Multi-cloud strategy and implementation across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Infrastructure-as-code with Terraform, containerization with Kubernetes and Docker.
Full-Stack Development
Building production applications with React, Next.js, TypeScript, Node.js, and modern toolchains from UI to API to database.
API & Integration Strategy
RESTful and GraphQL API design, event streaming with Kafka, microservices orchestration, and legacy system integration.
DevOps & CI/CD
Automated build, test, and deployment pipelines. GitHub Actions, Jenkins, monitoring with Datadog and Grafana, SRE best practices.
Security & Governance
Zero-trust architecture, identity management, compliance frameworks, and secure software development lifecycle practices.
Experience
2024 – Present
Senior Enterprise Architect at SolarWinds
- Designed and implemented Azure-based microservices eventing architecture to enable Change Data Capture (CDC) and real-time data federation across enterprise systems
- Architected ultra-high-throughput telemetry ingestion pipelines supporting near real-time processing, entitlement validation, and scalable analytics/reporting
- Led design of a domain-driven e-commerce platform, replacing fragmented point-to-point integrations with a cohesive microservices architecture
- Established bounded contexts and anti-corruption layers to enforce domain ownership and clean integration boundaries
- Implemented event-driven ESB patterns to enable loosely coupled, asynchronous communication across services
- Drove adoption of event-driven and asynchronous patterns to improve scalability, resilience, and extensibility across the platform
1999 – 2024
Development Lead & Solutions Architect at Dell
- 25+ years designing and building enterprise systems across client-server, REST, and microservices architectures
- Delivered cloud-native MDM platforms (Product, Customer, Sales) and led large-scale monolith-to-microservices transformations
- Established CI/CD practices across distributed engineering teams
- Drove enterprise AI adoption, including platform evaluation and development of custom RAG solutions
Key Projects
Regional Product Data MDM
* Led the modernization of a legacy COBOL-based product data management platform, re-architecting it to an ASP/VB/SQL Server stack and accelerating delivery through improved scalability and developer productivity * Designed and implemented real-time IPM (inter-process messaging) integrations with Tandem NonStop systems, ensuring reliable, high-throughput data exchange across critical enterprise workflows * Owned the design and delivery of a role-based authorization framework governing complex product staging, approval, and lifecycle processes, strengthening data governance and operational control * Drove end-to-end integration across upstream and downstream systems within procurement and marketing ecosystems, eliminating manual touchpoints and enabling seamless, automated workflows
Team: 15+North America
COBOLASPVBSQL ServerTandem NonStop+9
Global Product Data MDM
* Led the globalization of a successful regional Product MDM platform, transforming it into a centralized, enterprise-scale solution supporting multi-region operations and standardized data governance * Analyzed and mapped diverse regional workflows and business processes into a unified global application model, balancing standardization with necessary regional flexibility * Designed and implemented support for variant manufacturing bill of materials (BOM) lifecycles under a single global SKU, enabling region-specific production models within a consistent product framework * Conducted on-site engagement across multiple international regions to gather requirements, align stakeholders, and ensure accurate representation of local operational needs * Architected and delivered a secure, fault-tolerant system achieving “four-nines” (99.99%) availability, ensuring high reliability for mission-critical product and manufacturing workflows
Team: 25+North America, Europe, Latin America, Asia-Pacific
Product MDMMaster Data ManagementData ModelingWorkflow MappingBusiness Process Modeling+15
1997 - 1999
Software Engineer Consultant at Raymond James Consulting
Full-stack development across web and enterprise applications. Built data-driven solutions, internal tooling, and customer-facing products using Java, .NET, and JavaScript ecosystems.
1993 - 1997
Web Development at SSA Interactive
Designed, built, and operated high-performing client websites, driving SEO visibility, dynamic product catalog experiences, and seamless e-commerce capabilities. Complemented digital delivery with print design work and facilitated client workshops to translate business needs into cohesive creative and technical solutions.
1982 - Present
Personal Projects
Key Projects
Fermentum
fermentum.devA multi-tenant SaaS platform for micro-brewery chain management, covering the full production lifecycle from recipe formulation through batch tracking, equipment scheduling, inventory management, and customer operations. The system features schema-isolated multi-tenancy with row-level security in PostgreSQL, passwordless authentication via Stytch, Stripe payment processing, QuickBooks Online financial sync, and real-time notifications over SignalR. Two React frontends (operator and admin) communicate with a C#/.NET Core API layer, all deployed on Railway.
Team: 1North America
C#.NET CoreASP.NET CorePostgreSQLReact+16
Averis
averis.ericbrandcode.comA multi-tenant commerce Master Data Management platform that demonstrates federated product, pricing, and customer data flows across interconnected enterprise systems. Seven domain-specific React applications share a consolidated .NET Core API layer backed by a multi-schema PostgreSQL database, with real-time updates via SignalR, event-driven data synchronization through NATS messaging, and role-based access control powered by Stytch authentication. The platform models the complete product lifecycle from draft creation through pricing catalog assignment across global regions and market segments.
Team: 1North America
C#.NET CoreASP.NET CoreEntity Framework CorePostgreSQL+11
SIM
sim.ericbrandcode.comI was on vacation in Oslo, Norway for about a week and spent some time in the coffee shops playing around with these algorithms. This is a real-time agent-based community simulation where autonomous agents inhabit a procedurally generated Voronoi polygon map, gather resources, and build structures. The backend runs a tick-based simulation engine in C#/.NET broadcasting state over SignalR, while the frontend renders the world in 3D using React Three Fiber with dynamic lighting, a day/night cycle, and interactive controls for structure placement, resource gathering, and agent movement. Users configure world generation parameters including resource distribution strength and clumpiness to shape terrain composed of eight resource types across thousands of polygons.
Team: 1North America, Europe (Oslo)
C#.NET 9ASP.NET CoreSignalRReact+10
Statsim
A statistical village simulator, turned Agent sim. A tool used to learn statistical and agent simulation along with population and city systems dynamics.
Team: 1North America
C#ASP.NETSignalR
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