Tony Burian

Senior Engineering Manager, Platform Engineering

Abridge AI, Inc

02/2026 – 08/2026 · Remote

Abridge is a leading AI-powered healthcare technology platform that transforms clinical conversations into structured medical documentation and insights.

• Led Platform Engineering org (~13 people) responsible for Developer Experience, Infrastructure Automation, Deployment Platforms, Enterprise Environments, and Internal Developer Tooling for the company’s AI-powered healthcare products.
• Delivered a FedRAMP Moderate environment that enabled enterprise and government customer adoption while maintaining operational parity with the commercial platform and passing compliance audits.
• Raised Platform Engineering operating maturity by introducing RASCI ownership models, project planning frameworks, Linear adoption, and clearer operational visibility across engineering, security, and product.
• Standardized deployment workflows with a build-once, deploy-many CI/CD architecture, Turborepo-based affected deployments, and automated preview environments, reducing build times, release complexity, and developer friction.
• Launched the company’s Builder’s Portal (Internal Developer Platform) to expand self-service capabilities and improve engineering visibility into services, architecture, and environments.
• Expanded developer effectiveness through a multi-agent AI orchestration framework that supported architecture, implementation, testing, documentation, and operational workflows.
• Enabled enterprise-ready platform operations through dedicated single-tenant environments and organization-wide Teleport adoption for secure access to Kubernetes, databases, developer tooling, and internal services.
• Established foundational platform engineering practices that improved developer velocity, increased organizational transparency, accelerated enterprise customer onboarding, strengthened compliance readiness, and enabled scalable platform operations.

Engineering Manager, DevOps

FloQast, Inc

07/2023 – 02/2026 · Remote

• Built and scaled an 11-person multidisciplinary DevOps organization spanning Infrastructure, SRE, and Database Engineering.
• Established FinOps practices that reduced annual cloud spend by $1M through vendor management, cloud spend optimization, and operational forecasting across a $10M infrastructure portfolio.
• Launched the company’s Internal Developer Platform initiative (Backstage), establishing the foundation for a dedicated Developer Experience organization.
• Led platform modernization across MongoDB upgrades, API Gateway adoption, observability standardization, and incident management transformation.
• Strengthened incident management through on-call ownership, service reliability practices, and organization-wide incident response processes.

Director of Engineering, Platform & Infrastructure

CallRail, Inc

02/2019 – 10/2022 · Atlanta, GA

• Built and scaled a 16-person DevOps, SRE, and Cloud Engineering organization supporting mission-critical telephony operations responsible for ~90% of company revenue.
• Led cloud modernization initiatives including migration to AWS managed services (EKS, RDS, Elasticache, OpenSearch), improving scalability and operational efficiency.
• Established incident management, operational review, and postmortem practices that improved reliability and strengthened engineering accountability.
• Directed SOC 2 Type II certification efforts and implemented security programs including vulnerability management and bug bounty initiatives.
• Guided engineering modernization through adoption of Go, NoSQL technologies, serverless architectures, and platform automation.
• Balanced reliability, cost, and security across telemetry infrastructure that supported ~90% of company revenue.

Vice President, Technology

TCGplayer, Inc

12/2015 – 08/2018 · Remote

• Led Engineering, QA, DevOps, Operations, Data Engineering, and Test Automation across one of the largest trading-card marketplaces in the world.
• Built multiple engineering disciplines from the ground up, including DevOps, Data Engineering, Database Administration, API Engineering, and Test Automation.
• Directed cloud transformation from Rackspace to AWS while leading adoption of microservices, containerization, and modern engineering practices.
• Led the technical roadmap and vision presented to investors during a $10M growth equity process, speaking directly with investors multiple times to secure support for the company’s technology strategy and scalability plans.
• Drove product and platform expansion through Quicklist computer vision, TCGplayer Pro, API platform growth, and marketplace modernization.
• Advanced revenue growth by pairing technology innovation with stronger engineering execution.

Vice President, Engineering (Online Video Platform)

Piksel, Inc

05/2013 – 05/2015 · Atlanta, GA

Piksel is a cloud-based video technology and digital media platform provider serving broadcast and OTT clients worldwide.

• Led engineering and QA organizations for a global online video platform serving enterprise media clients.
• Directed platform modernization initiatives including SOA adoption, AngularJS architecture, video delivery optimization, and connected-device integrations.
• Improved platform reliability to 99.99% uptime while reducing operational costs through vendor and infrastructure optimization.
• Delivered high-availability media platform modernization and mentored teams to enterprise-class engineering maturity.

Prior experience

Technical and engineering leadership roles with Encompass Digital Media, Discovery Communications, and Crawford Communications

• Delivered large-scale content management, media distribution, and workflow automation platforms for global media organizations and government agencies.
• Architected API-driven content delivery, metadata management, and digital asset pipelines for high-volume video, image, and broadcast workloads.
• Led cross-functional engineering, operations, and support teams while introducing Agile delivery, SDLC governance, and operational best practices.
• Built an early foundation in software engineering, systems architecture, and platform design that shaped later cloud-native and platform engineering leadership.