Brian L.

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Builder, Investor, Advisor @ Optimizely
Brian L.'s Location
San Francisco, California, United States, United States
Brian L.'s Contact Details
About Brian L.

Technical builder, advisor, and investor. Four exits.@ Credible: CTO, Founding team (IPO in 2017, then acq by Fox Corp, $400M+)@ Optimizely: Senior Staff Engineer (acq 2020 by Insight Venture Partners) 200->1500 people. @ Hoopla: co-founder (acq 2010 by PYDA)@ Sling: Lead Architect + Eng Manager (acq 2008 by Dish, $380M) I am an LP(investor) in multiple healthcare, fintech, web3, defense, and real estate funds, and an active angel through my fund, Resolved Ventures.Four patents. Open source software contributor and early proponent of cloud-computing.

Brian L.'s Current Company Details
Optimizely

Optimizely

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Builder, Investor, Advisor
Brian L. Work Experience Details
  • Optimizely
    Engineering Leadership
    Optimizely Oct 2020 - Present
    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.
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  • Optimizely
    Senior Staff Software Engineer
    Optimizely 2016 - Oct 2020
    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
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  • Myworker.Ai
    Advisor
    Myworker.Ai Jun 2024 - Present
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  • Resolved
    Partner
    Resolved 2020 - Present
    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.
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  • Letulet
    Advisor
    Letulet 2016 - 2021
    San Francisco, Ca, Us
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  • Credible
    Advisor
    Credible 2015 - 2017
    Durham, North Carolina, Us
    IPO in 2017 (ASX:CRD). Later acquired for A$585M in 2019 by FOX Corporation (FOXA).
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  • Credible
    Chief Technical Officer, Founding Team
    Credible 2013 - 2015
    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.
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  • Fusion Network
    Advisor
    Fusion Network 2015 - 2016
    fintech and capital advisory group
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  • Streamnation
    Vp Of Engineering
    Streamnation Aug 2012 - Jan 2013
    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.
  • Sling Tv
    Senior Engineering Manager, Web And Internet Technology
    Sling Tv Jun 2010 - Jul 2012
    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).
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  • Sling Tv
    Lead Architect, Web And Internet Technology
    Sling Tv Nov 2007 - Jun 2010
    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.
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  • Hoopla
    Founder, Chief Technical Officer
    Hoopla 2004 - 2007
    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.
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  • Sun Microsystems
    Software Engineer (Intern)
    Sun Microsystems 2001 - 2004
    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).
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Brian L. Skills

Test Engineering Consulting Catalogue Channel Sound Diffusion Credit Cards Ocap Infrastructure Token Ring Interactive Applications Windows Sales Undergraduate Computing Fee Students Market Research Finance Videography Executive Positions High End Programming Savings Thesis Fusebox Entrepreneurship Leeds Legal Php Ruby On Rails Detection At&t Secret Search Management Design Isp Stack Lucene Crm Media Systems Metrics Broadcast Spanish Atm Networks Gen Telecommunications Engineering Jsp Information Systems Opencable Hosting Publications Public Speaking Linux Finalist Human Resources Algorithms Highlands Ranch Asp Tomcat Networking Sun Microsystems Forecasting System Telecommunications Business Services Education Charismatic Engineering Reports Tcp/ip Cvs Analytical Abilities Apache Ethernet Cash Flow Forecasting In Services Public Policy Corporations Testing Team Motivator Denver Strategic Leadership Deloitte Training Special Purpose Policy Dutch Solaris News Private Equity Codebase Dac Natural Language Solr Project Management Low Budget Applied Sciences Start Up Ventures Crisis Shares Venture Capital Investigation Journalists Target Marketing Analysis Hardware Status Tracking Provisioning Switched Information Retrieval .net Trials Cable Television Capital Allocation C Voip Symphony Fix Protocol Implications Accountability Applications Osi 2003 Present Data Collection Communication Business Development Business Analysis Negotiation Dojo Experian Usability Interactive Advertising Public Companies Marketing Colorado Broomfield Business Intelligence Project Software Lifecycle Spec World Design Bronze Presentations Media Spss Websites Responsibility Internal Audit Council Customer Experience Multimedia Corporate Identity Mass Production Banking Centrifuge Nlp Subversion Cables Broadband Gentoo System Development Start Ups Prototype Blogging Government Investments Academic Public Sector Iis Ajax Vod Software Amazon Ec2 Video Innovator Business Planning Profiles Java Database Development Civil Litigation Interviews Javascript Incorporation Platforms Extending Invoicing Sense Of Urgency Sem Budgets Scanners Financial Transactions Englewood Business Communications Group Dynamics Risk Cost Benefit Television Technical Issues Wireless Coldfusion Technology Trends Combat Suse Capstone Large Projects Fraud Coordinated Competition Storytelling

Brian L. Education Details

  • University Of Colorado Boulder College Of Engineering & Applied Science
    University Of Colorado Boulder College Of Engineering & Applied Science
    Telecommunications Engineering
  • University Of Colorado Boulder
    University Of Colorado Boulder
    Information Systems

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