Justin Burdine

• Lead enterprise automation strategy across 25 named Fortune 500 accounts in healthcare, financial services, retail, and software.
• Drive seven-figure, platform-wide automation transformations focused on enterprise-scale adoption and operational standardization.
• Advise Directors and VPs on responsible AI in infrastructure, positioning Ansible Automation Platform as the deterministic governance layer for AI-assisted system design and operations.
• Mentor account and specialist solution architects on responsible AI positioning.

• Built and led the global Solution Engineering organization from inception, hiring and developing the team directly.
• Supported 70 global enterprise accounts, influencing seven-figure annual revenue through structured technical validation and platform adoption strategy.
• Served as executive technical sponsor for strategic accounts across complex modernization and automation initiatives.
• Established the technical go-to-market framework aligning solution architecture execution with company growth objectives.

• Led and scaled a 10-person specialist Solutions Architecture team across six regional sales pods in the Central U.S.
• Supported approximately 200 enterprise accounts, influencing eight-figure annual platform revenue across OpenShift, Ansible, and Satellite.
• Established repeatable technical validation focused on complex automation problem-solving and POC execution.
• Directly hired and developed specialist SAs, owning headcount planning and organizational design.

• Led and developed an 8-person Solutions Architecture team supporting 25 enterprise accounts across a four-state territory.
• Influenced seven-figure annual revenue across the Red Hat portfolio: OpenShift, Ansible, RHEL, and CloudForms.
• Owned performance management, career development, and technical depth growth for the regional SA team.

• Delivered enterprise cloud and automation transformation programs across Fortune 500 accounts.
• Conducted hands-on workshops accelerating adoption of automation and hybrid cloud platforms.
• Partnered directly with Fortune 500 IT leadership on modernization strategy.

• Built and led a cloud migration practice serving Fortune 500 clients, managing the engineers delivering the engagements.
• Trusted advisor to C-level stakeholders; designed hybrid cloud strategies that minimized operational risk.

Started a company to remove the worst part of publishing media: encoding one file a dozen ways and uploading it everywhere by hand. Firepype automated the pipeline end to end, then grew into live podcast analytics and dynamic ad insertion.

• Designed and implemented large-scale IT solutions for Fortune 500 customers.
• Led disaster recovery, infrastructure modernization, and data center migration initiatives.
• Built long-term executive relationships across major enterprise accounts.

Built deep foundational expertise in large-scale infrastructure design, Unix and Linux systems, network architecture, and high-performance compute.

• Designed and operated large-scale render farm infrastructure supporting production-critical visual effects pipelines for two Academy Award-winning films.
• Led systems architecture and security compliance aligned with Department of Defense standards: server hardening, audit processes, and enterprise infrastructure design.
• Primary systems administrator and network architect in higher education, rebuilding core network services and designing secure firewall architecture for a major university engineering college.
• Established configuration management, operational reporting, and infrastructure standards across multiple organizations, laying the foundation for a career in enterprise architecture and pre-sales leadership.