Brian Coan Email & Phone Number

San Mateo, Ca, Us

At Upstart for the first year worked on the Investors Squad, where we designed and built a new secure API service to serve data on applicants and loans to the partner lenders.The next two years worked on the Borrowers Squad, building new hardship loan modification programs to aid borrowers during the first year of COVID-19, among other features. I was the lead designer and developer for the infrastructure that enabled borrowers to make payments on their loans using debit cards.The last year worked on the Servicing Engine squad, laying the groundwork for the eventual separation of the post-origination loan servicing pieces of the Upstart web site to be moved into its own microservice.

Calgary, Alberta, Ca

For the last 2 years I primarily developed backend services for the Mobile team using NodeJS and other Javascript tools. I worked on a team of 3 to convert Replicon's mobile backend services from the .Net platform to the NodeJS platform, and subsequently developed new services for the mobile team.Additionally, I architected & built Replicon's Chatbot through the first release. It uses Amazon Lex as its NLU engine, communicating with the mobile clients via WebSocket, and with Replicon's services using a NodeJS backend.Technologies employed: NodeJS, ExpressJS, EmberJS, ChaiJS, MochaJS, SinonJS, Superagent, Supertest, Botkit, WebSocket, AWS Lex, S3, Aurora, ElasticBeanstalk, Codepipeline, CircleCI, Jenkins

Calgary, Alberta, Ca

For the first year+ at Replicon I was sole Android developer for the Replicon CloudClock product (http://www.replicon.com/time-clock). I was responsible for the development of the client product that runs on an Android tablet, and took the product from early development through product launch and subsequent feature releases. I evolved the product from intially running solely on the Samsung Tab (on the Froyo OS, not designed for tablets), through all modern releases of Android.I utilized the Samsung Mobile Device Management APIs to turn the app into a true Kiosk for the device, and built the client backend to enable Replicon servers to push updates to customers devices and install without requiring customer intervention.For 3+ years I was the team lead on the CloudClock product for a geographically diverse team of developers. In addition to building new features to the original product, we developed an entirely new version of the product utilizing Replicon's NextGen web services (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.replicon.cloudclock).I worked with PM to refine requirements for Sprint stories, and I mentored junior developers on the team. I worked to increase cross-team collaboration with the team building Replicon's Mobile app, and occasionally contributed to that project. I pushed myself and my team to Unit Test all their code, to keep up with evolving Android OS and tools, and to investigate emerging mobile technologies.In order to monitor the Cloud Clocks, I designed and built a Ruby on Rails app using Amazon services (EC2, DynamoDB, Cognito, Elastic Beanstalk) that receives frequent status updates from every clock and displays the status for Customer Service to monitor and respond to.Technologies employed: Dagger Dependency Injection Library, Butterknife View Injection library, Robolectric Unit Test Framework

New York, New York, Us

Built an Android version of BabyCenter’s Pregnancy Tracker app, that launched March 2011.Worked on the team that converted the BabyCenter site from running on the proprietary ATG Dynamo framework to run on the open-source Spring Framework, and supported new features on the site since then.Developed services on the web site to enable users to subscribe to BabyCenter's mobile offerings (“Booty Caller” and “BabyCenter Mobile Tips”).Developed or co-developed several services to exchange data between BabyCenter's main web site and the social site, which include enabling Single-Sign-On between the two sites.Developed a system for SNMP-monitoring of any Java Object in BabyCenter's web application.Worked on the teams developing the last 2 versions of the eCommerce site. The most recent version ran on MarketLive eCommerce platform (on top of Spring Framework). I built the system for the remote-hosted front-end to use our in-house user data via web services (using SOAP protocol), enabling customer signup or account details updates from either host to be synchronized with the remote partner.Worked on the team converting the user personalization system from a home-grown one to standardize on the ATG Personalization system in 2006-2007. Through this project, introduced two new technologies to BabyCenter: AOP and JUnit testing.Lead developer on integrating 3rd party BBS system (Jive) to our ATG Dynamo environment, and maintained it through multiple upgrades. Worked on the team developing the previous version of the eCommerce site in 2001 and multiple store improvement projects since then. That version ran on a combination of ATG Dynamo DCS, and Yantra (on Weblogic) systems. In particular, I worked on the inter-system communications between the front-end system, the Yantra fulfillment system, and the various warehouses and drop shippers' systems, exchanging and transforming XML order documents.

Primarily worked on the modules of the portal platform dealing with membership management, working with customer services to determine customer needs, designing and implementing solutions based on their input.

Shared system administration and development duties for a non-profit international email and BBS system that evolved into an ISP and web portal.Projects:Developed a complex Sendmail environment, including hooks for user authentication, faxing, email to newsgroups, multiple queues and host load balancing, POP-before-SMTP authorization, anti-spam rule sets, configuration files built using mc system, regression testing, tracking and billing for costly gateways, designed for easy upgrade to subsequent releases.Developed and maintained an InterNetNews (INN) server with specialized authentication and hooks to the legacy notes database.Developed a service to allow Off Line Readers quick access to user's mail and conferences.Worked with international partners, maintaining UUCP and internet connections, assisting in software and hardware installations or upgrades. On occasion would work at international partners for technical exchanges.Developed and maintained various admin scripts for user account, mail and conference maintenance.Technologies:C, Korn Shell, PERL, Sendmail, POP/SMTP, NNTP, INN, NIS, NFS, DNS, SSH, Radius server, FIdoNet, CVS/RCS

Ciudad Autónoma De Buenos Aires, Ciudad Autónoma De Buenos Aires, Ar

Installed and administered an UNIX system as the major e-mail and BBS system in the country. Adapted various programs to deal with sub-optimal infrastructure. Trained Nicaraguans in UNIX basics.In years following, an occasional short visit to assist in upgrades.

Developed or enhanced various tools for system administration.

* Various UNIX and TCP/IP network stack projects, from the driver level to the socketlevel to the application level.

* Developed controller simulators on a VAX for testing communications links for anantenna monitoring system.