Brian L. Email & Phone Number

New York, New York, Us

Acq in Oct. 2020 by Insight Venture Partners. As part of acquisition, I led efforts to build and scale-up several mission-critical products across Optimizely's engineering teams:- vlarge (10B+ daily events) performant billing data pipeline on GCP/BigQuery/Snowflake, processing metrics and events from the world's largest websites (by traffic). - new metered-billing MAU metric (Monthly Active User) introduced in 2021, evaluating billions of events per month, per user, using Airflow and later BigQuery. - service fabric platform group on Azure for orchestration of services, events, and applications- platform for internal/external user-facing metrics dashboards, which powers the user experiences across 7 separate product platforms built on Looker.Most recently, I've been working with AI efforts across teams and orgs in Optimizely, building out products on top of both OpenAI and Google Vertex platforms for use internally and externally.

New York, New York, Us

Optimizely is the world’s leading (A/B) experimentation platform. Led large company-wide projects in product development, product delivery, internal tools, billing, and engineering excellence.Occasionally, I get to speak at conferences large and small about these projects (many modeled around DORA principles):- Higher velocity through more frequent deploys and smaller changesets- Driving engineering experimentation with feature flags/gating- Building infrastructure (tooling) to decrease operational burden. - “Shifting left” on QA, experimentation, security, etc to increase overall developer velocity

Investor in 25+ companies (mostly up-to-date list on resolved.vc). Helping teams to build, iterate, and scale is something I enjoy and find rewarding.Additionally I draw on my engineering and startup-founder lessons to advise early-stage startups in the AI, Fintech, and SaaS space.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Durham, North Carolina, Us

IPO in 2017 (ASX:CRD). Later acquired for A$585M in 2019 by FOX Corporation (FOXA).

Durham, North Carolina, Us

Credible (credible.com) is one of the largest lender-to-consumer marketplaces, providing competitive rates for students, personal, and home borrowers. As CTO, I did a few good things (in no particular order):1. came up with the company name2. built out front-end, backend, and back-office loan operations portal3. grew company and platform from a napkin drawing to a fully-scaled financial services marketplace. 4. Led the entirety of technical strategy, platform development, and recruiting efforts.5. Did some of the initial product design and development.

fintech and capital advisory group

streamnation.com: Headed up engineering operations for multiple offices (14 engineers in Paris and 6 for SF team).Built engineering team in San Francisco including mobile, front-end, back-end and big data developers.Architect of infinite-storage video platform that included extensive backend and async service- bus development as well as authoring whitepapers and participation in due diligence team.

Englewood, Co, Us

Acquired by Echostar/Dish (SATS) in early 2008.Built out the San Francisco Internet platform and technology team. Spent many late nights getting sling.com launched.Led and managed diverse Internet team comprised of backend service developers (J2EE, PHP), data warehouse developers (Hadoop, Hive, Pig, Oracle BI, NoSQL/MongoDB), front-end engineers (Backbone, jQuery), and cloud/infrastructure architecture engineers (AWS, EC2, Rightscale, Akamai).

Englewood, Co, Us

Sling Media created the Slingbox and the technology behind the present-day Sling TV offering.Lead architect responsibilities included building globally-distributed platform that handles approximately 30% of all Sling streaming video traffic. Extensive cloud-computing development with globally distributed platforms and rapid prototyping, scaling, deployment, failover.Architected cloud-computing platform currently used by encoding bus, Internet portal (sling.com), EPG metadata ingestion, and many other applications currently in use today.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Acquired by gaming firm PYDA in 2010.Early form of a Google News-type platform blending AI and natural language processing platform that scanned millions of news and multimedia stories using stacks built on Java, Ruby/Rails, and PHP. Built entire stack including front-end, backend with parallel processing platform that could scale to handle millions of data points and disparate media types.Extensively developed on early days of EC2 and Amazon web services. Heavy usage of SQS, S3, and other services.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Worked on Java-based app servicing $10 billion annual bookings in services, software, and hardware. Also designed a notification system for proactive detection and alerts (SunAlert).

M.Sc, Telecommunications Engineering

Bs, Information Systems