Summary
Donovan Bray is a seasoned technology leader specializing in building scalable, fault-tolerant infrastructure to support high-performing engineering teams. As Director of DevOps at Kiavi, he leads efforts to scale and secure a fast-growing mortgage platform that has originated billions in loans, while empowering engineers to ship resilient software. His expertise spans software development, DevOps, and back-end systems using Ruby on Rails, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and cloud-native tooling across AWS, Docker, Redis, and Redshift. With a track record in security and compliance, he has driven SSAE 16 and PCI DSS readiness and built robust operations and IT governance in multi-team environments. He has led and evolved teams across Kiavi and earlier roles at Deem and other tech organizations, combining hands-on engineering with strategic infrastructure and security leadership. Based in San Francisco, he brings a practical, battle-tested approach to turning complex requirements into reliable, auditable systems at scale.
11 years of coding experience