A.J. BROWN

AI-Enabled Education Products

• Lead product teams focused on building the next generation of AI-enabled education products through agentic architectures and platform services, serving learners and educators worldwide
• Drive responsible AI product development with a focus on real, measurable improvements to learner outcomes—ensuring AI capabilities are trustworthy, safe, and grounded in proven pedagogy

Enterprise AI & Productivity

• Drive major enterprise initiatives to increase productivity through Agentic Product Development and other applications of Generative AI across the organization
• Lead enterprise rollout and adoption of generative AI solutions including Claude Code and Claude Desktop, enabling teams to deliver faster while maintaining quality and safety standards

Distributed Systems & Data Processing

• Architect and lead technical design for cloud-native platform systems processing millions of open source component releases monthly across all major language ecosystems (npm, PyPI, Maven, NuGet, etc.)
• Design scalable data pipelines ingesting, inspecting, and analyzing OSS components in real-time using event-driven architecture (AWS EventBridge, Kinesis) with Java/Spring Boot microservices
• Lead technical design for usage-based billing metering system helping transition Sonatype as a cloud-first platform—translating diverse product requirements into unified, scalable solution serving multiple products within platform suite
• Led 0-to-1 R&D initiative designing and prototyping breaking changes analysis solution leveraging tree-sitter parsers and LLMs to detect API compatibility issues across software ecosystems

Cloud Infrastructure & Performance

• Drive scalability, reliability, and observability initiatives for distributed AWS infrastructure
• Spearhead cost optimization reducing AWS spend by $235K annually while maintaining business-critical services and system performance
• Lead technical strategy development alongside executive leadership for cloud platform evolution

Product-Technical Bridge & Collaboration

• Collaborate closely with product managers as owner of technical design on scoping, value determination, prioritization, and requirements gathering
• Translate complex stakeholder needs into scalable technical solutions—looking beyond individual requests to design systems that work for all platform products
• Engage directly with customers on technical architecture discussions, understanding real-world constraints while focusing on delightful user experience
• Mentor cross-functional engineering teams (3-5 person delivery teams) on distributed systems patterns, cloud architecture, and technical delivery best practices
• Created the Agentic Software Delivery methodology—a structured, multi-phase approach using orchestrated AI agents for rapid prototyping and parallel development, accelerating time-to-market without compromising quality, security, or architectural standards

First-to-Market Security Innovation

• Led 0-to-1 development of "Release Integrity" (now Malware Defense)—directing research, development, and launch of the first-to-market automated malicious component detection solution for software supply chains now detecting thousands of new malicious packages quarterly, establishing industry leadership in software supply chain firewall capabilities
• Led LifeCycle Products focused on open source component health and intelligence, leveraging unique software supply chain data advantage

Product-Technical Leadership

• Managed Advanced Development Pack feature development and go-to-market strategy
• Translated customer requirements into scalable technical roadmaps, balancing user needs with architectural constraints
• Partnered with engineering leadership to prioritize features based on business impact and technical feasibility