Ryan Brown

Vice President, Enterprise Architecture, Cloud & Data

Pulte Financial Services · Centennial, CO · Aug 2021 – Present

• Designed and executed a multi-year Azure modernization roadmap covering all core mortgage workloads.
• Founded and scaled Cloud, Data, AI, and DevSecOps Centers of Excellence, embedding security-first principles and automation into enterprise delivery.
• Founded the first enterprise data and BI team, delivering near real-time dashboards and governed AI signals that guide pricing, incentive modeling, and operational workflows.
• Integrated GenAI into mortgage production: document review automation, sentiment analysis dashboards, and ML-driven incentive prediction models.
• Served as founding member of the AI governance committee, guiding ethical adoption and risk management.
• Trusted advisor to C-suite and board, translating complex technology strategies into actionable business outcomes.

Chief Architect – Cloud

Visa DPS · Highlands Ranch, CO · Jul 2019 – Aug 2021

• Architected and executed Visa DPS's enterprise cloud transformation strategy.
• Co-founded Visa's Cloud Center of Excellence, establishing technical guardrails, DevOps best practices, and a long-term cloud adoption roadmap.
• Championed the Open-Source Software initiative, aligning technology innovation with business expansion.
• Directed enterprise-wide SaaS adoption, migrating customer service and sales operations to a unified cloud platform, streamlining workflows and improving efficiency.
• Collaborated with executive leadership to optimize infrastructure investment decisions against long-term business outcomes.

Chief Architect – Digital Transformation

Arrow Electronics · Centennial, CO · Dec 2016 – Jul 2019

• Established and led the Digital Architecture and Cloud Centers of Excellence, defining strategic direction for enterprise cloud-native transition.
• Directed the end-to-end re-platform of Arrow Digital's $1 billion eCommerce platform onto Azure in six months, enhancing scalability, agility, and customer experience.
• Led enterprise-wide adoption of Scaled Agile practices across 100+ engineers and architects.
• Achieved full GDPR compliance in three months, safeguarding customer trust and mitigating regulatory risk.
• Architected a next-generation data platform using Kafka Streams, enabling hyper-personalized experiences and driving revenue growth from $500M to $1.5B.
• Achieved 30% annual cloud cost reduction through strategic optimization playbooks.

Lead Software Architect

Helix Education · Denver, CO · Sep 2015 – Dec 2016

• Led a team of four architects designing and implementing a distributed, event-driven architecture using Go, Kafka, Samza, and PostgreSQL.
• Unified three previously disconnected acquired products into a cohesive platform API, streamlining operations and improving system performance.
• Implemented automated deployment pipelines and engineering standards, accelerating release cycles while reducing manual errors.
• Directed development of a real-time stream processing platform, empowering clients with behavior-based intelligence.

Team Lead / Principal Software Engineer / Architect – R&D

Pearson · Denver, CO · Jul 2009 – Sep 2015

• Founding member of the Pearson API Best Practices Group, establishing API design guidelines and driving horizontal scalability across a 200+ REST endpoint suite.
• Designed and led architecture for an enterprise messaging system orchestrating 30M+ state-change messages daily across 700+ producers and 2,000+ consumers.
• Pioneered Pearson's cloud-based API strategy, developing client libraries and data messaging services adopted across engineering teams globally.
• Spearheaded an n-tier SOA solution and REST API wrapper, significantly enhancing performance, reliability, and scalability.

Selected Earlier Experience

2001 – 2009

• Senior Consultant — Analysts International / eBags, Inc.
• Senior Engineer and Analyst — IntraNext Systems
• Web Developer — SecureNet, LLC

Computer Information Systems Management

Regis University · Denver, CO