Patrick Brewer has been working in the IT industry for over 20 years. Patrick started their career as a system engineer and has since held various positions in both management and technical roles. Patrick is currently the director of the United States Information Technology Office.
Brewer began their career at LexisNexis in July 2014 as a senior system engineer. In this role, they were responsible for setting up the company's first CounselLink POC stack in AWS and developing AWS EBS snapshot lifecycle management and backup policy using Python and Lambda. Patrick also set up the eDiscovery product in AWS in 2 days for customer demo. In addition to their engineering duties, Brewer was also the Splunk admin for a splunk cluster ingesting 350GB+/day of logs and data from 2000+ sources.
In May 2018, Brewer left LexisNexis to join the United States Information Technology Office as the director. In this role, they are responsible for leading the office's efforts in the cloud.