Brian Buchalter Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, California, Us

* Lead a program to build systems which empower domain experts to manage the foundational payroll domain configuration data which drive critical payroll workflows and calculations.* Credited by CTO as the "main catalyst" for rebooting a previously abandoned technical program now deemed mission critical.* Regular contributions to improving incident response by championing a blameless post-mortem culture, developing responsiveness readiness processes for teams, and leading our most technically challenging incidents.* Contributed to developer experience programs such as cloud-based developer environments and CI speed and stability.* Regular contributions to recruiting and interview process refinement. Participation in hiring committee to screen and level candidates.* Mentored dozens of engineers.* Booted-up many new teams.

Ottawa, On, Ca

* Shipped tooling to allow internal PaaS customers to run online (non-locking) database schema migrations which do not block code deploys.* Shipped tooling to monitor schema consistency across database shards. Developed alerts and corresponding playbooks to investigate inconsistencies.* Improved resiliency of online database schema migrations by testing and tuning retries against different failure scenarios such as lock wait timeouts.* Learned about automated database failover design and tooling in a multi-region active/passive architecture using MySQL multi-threaded replication and GTID, Orchestrator, ProxySQL and ZooKeeper.* Deployed applications using Kubernetes on Google Kubernetes Engine.* Managed VMs on Google Compute Engine using Chef.* Learned how to use Splunk Search Processing Language.* Documented and presented internally on best practices for building and shipping Ruby gems for internal use at Shopify.* Scripted a solution to automate setup and teardown of staging environments for our database failover infrastructure.* Exposure to system monitoring, reporting, and alerting systems like DataDog, Icinga, and VividCortex.* Exposed to CI tooling like Buildkite and ShipIt.

* Lead developers building exceptional e-commerce experiences with Spree/Solidus and Ruby on Rails.* Advance overall health and architecture of software and infrastructure.* Execute large, complex projects like major visual refreshes following corporate rebranding.* Define, groom, prioritize and accept work for the team as an Agile product owner.* Manage AWS OpsWorks infrastructure and develop load test scripts to ensure site scales.* Implement third party integrations for A/B testing, loyalty programs, targeted email campaigns, abandon cart programs, and more.* Define and prioritize technical roadmap with stakeholders.* Run training sessions that empower stakeholders with new capabilities and keep departments coordinated for large events like Black Friday.

Boulder, Co, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

New York, New York, Us

* Lead Rails developer and system administrator for TriSano open source project* Lead Rails developer and system administrator for Tommy John e-commerce site powered by Spree* Contributing member to our sales team and managed hosting team

Responsible for sales, design, development and delivery of custom information systems for businesses using Ruby on Rails. Responsible for managing Linux and Windows servers, physical and virtual, hosted internally and by third parties.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Assisted in generation and verification of quarterly delivery of financial reporting requirements for U.S. Department of Agriculture using software developed by my team.

Bs, Information Technology & Management

Bs, Entreprenurship