About Brian Haney

Small and medium-sized businesses are adopting artificial intelligence at a historic pace. But while the promise of automation and generative efficiency is immense, most business leaders are acutely aware of the risks: unpredictable hallucinations, runaway API costs, and terrifying data privacy vulnerabilities.

As a retired Google Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), my mission at BrianKHaney LLC is to bring the rigorous, battle-tested principles of large-scale infrastructure engineering directly to your business operations. I help you move away from risky, experimental prompt engineering and toward robust, predictable, and secure AI workflows.

The SRE Lens: Why Reliability Matters

In traditional software engineering, failures are bounded and predictable. But Large Language Models are stochastic systems—they fail softly, creatively, and without warning.

My approach is built on foundational SRE principles:

• Circuit Breakers & Guardrails: Implementing hard technical constraints and OpenTelemetry tracing so your AI agents cannot loop infinitely or rack up unexpected expenses.   

• Zero Data Retention: Architecting your systems on enterprise-grade infrastructure (such as Vertex AI) to guarantee your proprietary business data and customer information are never used to train public models.

• Progressive Authorization: Ensuring humans remain firmly in the loop with clear approval gates, giving you productivity without sacrificing control over your blast radius.

Background & Expertise

• Engineering Foundation: Decades of systems reliability engineering experience, including deep technical roots maintaining massive infrastructure at Google.

• Continuous Upskilling: Formal mastery of modern AI frameworks through the Google AI Professional Certification program, combined with hands-on experience building local Python automation scripts and agentic workflows.

• Fractional Leadership: Formerly offering leadership development and team consulting, I combine deep technical acumen with a collaborative, empathetic coaching style that bridges the gap between complex engineering and everyday business needs.

Whether you need a quick-win workflow automated in a three-week sprint or executive-level oversight as your Fractional Chief AI Officer, my goal is to give you absolute peace of mind while your AI systems work for your bottom line.

Ready to Secure Your Operations?

Let’s replace AI anxiety with deterministic reliability.