Brian Bowden Email & Phone Number

Sf Bay Area, Us

Building a world-class mobile experience for Honey Homes on Android

Leveraging over 12 years of experience helping startups build and ship world-class products, I founded Westline Studio to help startup founders build and ship fantastic products that are primed to reach product-market fit as quickly as possible.

Exploring the west coast, helping out some friends with their startups, and diving into RV life

San Francisco, Ca, Us

* Led a team of 7 engineers as we grew and improved the flagship Savings product. Recently gained an additional team of 2.* Reduced team on-call ticket load by more than 50% through a multi-phased strategy.* Coached multiple engineers into becoming the strongest version of themselves.* Maintained team focus, productivity, and morale through a challenging acquisition, major budget reductions, and multiple layoffs.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

* Planned and built out digital debit card provisioning for Apple Pay and Google Wallet, a multi-month project that enabled instant “Add to Wallet” digital card creation. This allowed for a significant increase in adoption of the Digit Direct debit card.* Developed expertise in retirement and investment products as I developed, managed, and diagnosed Digit’s long-term savings features offered in partnership with DriveWealth.* Stack: TypeScript, React Native, Node.js, Express, DynamoDB, GoLang, Redshift, AWS

Chattanooga, Tennessee, Us

* Designed a robust multi-source KYC cross-examination platform to quickly detect fraudulent activity while remaining cost-effective.* Designed an AI-assisted system to automate the lifecycle of customer document request and verification.* Created a transaction merchant branding platform to give all team members the ability to proof and tweak merchant logos and brand coloration for display within the app.* Implemented data warehousing and analytics solutions for business intelligence.* Stack: Elixir, Phoenix, PostgreSQL, GoLang, BigQuery, GCP

Chattanooga, Tennessee, Us

* As the sole backend engineer, built the full backend to support a fintech savings app, including complex integrations (Plaid + CorePro), data stream and file ingestion for transfer and account activity, strong idempotency for task execution, RabbitMQ job processing, and an end-2-end encrypted API for the mobile app.* Designed and developed a robust internal customer account management portal for our customer support team.* Stack: Elixir, Phoenix, PostgreSQL, GoLang, BigQuery, GCP

Chattanooga, Tn, Us

* Lead development and maintenance of the Spire Labs Android product line.* Exploratory R&D in Machine Learning.* Stack: Kotlin, Java, Android, Node.js, JavaScript, MySQL, Redis, Python.

Chattanooga, Tn, Us

* Development and maintenance of the Spire Labs Android apps.* Stack: Java, Android.

* Development and maintenance of the LifeKraze Android app.* Stack: Java, Android.

Chattanooga, Tn, Us

* Lead design and development of externally-facing broker enrollment API.* Stack: Microsoft C#, .NET, ASP.NET, MSSQL, HTML, CSS.

Chattanooga, Tn, Us

* .NET enterprise Software development in various roles.* Stack: Microsoft C#, .NET, ASP.NET, MSSQL.

* Design and development of a web-based scientific journal database, crawler, and search engine.* Stack: Perl, MySQL, HTML, CSS.

* Redesign of the internal open-source “BugZilla” bug tracking system.* Stack: Perl, HTML, CSS.

* Linux and cluster software administration.* Monitoring, maintenance, and repair of a world-class supercomputing cluster.