Bryan Gaston Email & Phone Number

Santa Monica, California, US

Santa Monica, California, US

Headspace is the world’s most accessible and comprehensive digital mental health and wellbeing platform. We offer the full spectrum of care from mindfulness and meditation in-app content to mental health coaching via realtime chat and, for members needing clinical services, support via video calls with a licensed therapist or psychiatrist.I lead the Care.

San Francisco, California, US

Joined Headspace via merger

San Francisco, California, US

• Architected, and was primary contributor on, a service for aggregating 3rd-party merchant data and intelligently combining those data into consolidated merchant records. It included a scoring mechanism for a.
• Collaborated on a self-service dashboard for merchants to manage their order fulfillment. Merchants could switch to fulfillment via point-of-sale (POS) system and could use the self-service experience to connect their.
• Discovered and corrected bugs that could have led to outages.
• Optimized inefficient queries, increasing Postgres I/O capacity and reducing outage risk.
• Set up a distributed task queue, a Postgres DB, and other infrastructure in Kubernetes.
• Validated/analyzed feature performance by writing SQL on Redshift and BigQuery.

San Francisco, California, US

• Significantly reduced operational costs by implementing backend for a new, personalized buyer-facing help center to replace an existing 3rd-party service. The solution was implemented primarily in Node.js and Python.
• Reduced phone order cancellations by ~37% by reworking logic for an internal queue used by agents who placed orders with merchants.
• Reduced touch rate and operational costs by automating the handling of various credit and refund scenarios to provide customers faster resolutions for common issues.
• Architected and implemented a system to automate preparation for holidays and to empower non-technical team members to handle the process. Configuring a holiday with the UI would then initiate a robocall campaign.
• Led a team of 4 to implement integrations with external point-of-sale (POS) systems so that merchants could receive orders from Postmates without changing their existing systems. Contributed foundational work for the.
• Saved hours of the team’s testing time by implementing a tool that generated combinations of entities in different common states.

• I designed and built our entire application for two different business concepts that involved cause marketing in an e-commerce environment.These are some of the tools and technologies I used:
• NodeJS (Express)
• Braintree
• React.js
• Elastic Beanstalk, RDS, ElastiCache (Redis), S3, SQS, etc. at AWS
• Git, Vagrant, etc.

Research Triangle Park, NC, US

Developed features for our process-management system for hospital pharmacies. Built interactive, customer-facing analytics system. Contributed features as part of the pharmacist-guided medication verification system and customer-specific medication tracking.Other notable contributions:• Wrote the first tests for our products (Codeception, PHPUnit)• Built a.

Chapel Hill, NC, US

Short project patching SQL injection and cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in an online video search website

Chapel Hill, NC, US

• Collaborated on the design of a Wordpress plugin for humanities projects
• Led a team of four undergraduates in migrating data from a legacy system to a new system
• Parsed and standardized data for importing into the new platform

• Computer diagnostic and repair services
• Data recovery
• Custom-built computers
• Home network consultation
• Remote assistance
• Technology consultation for both home and office environments

Chapel Hill, NC, US

• As Applications Coordinator:
• Linked students' financial aid documents to their profiles using ImageNow and PeopleSoft
• Worked with fellow Applications Coordinators and other staff members of the Financial Aid Office to ensure that students received the help that they neededIn the External Aid Division:
• Wrote a comprehensive manual of procedures and instructions for the External Aid & Grants division of the Office of Scholarships and Student Aid
• Collaborated with members of other offices to help students receive their financial aid
• Answered student/parent questions regarding financial aid and communicated with financial aid providers

• Set up and maintained TABLE's computers
• Created and maintained TABLE's Microsoft Access database
• Trained staff and volunteers to use TABLE's computers and database
• Provided mailing list support with Mailman (GNU mailing list manager)
• Maintained TABLE's Twitter and Facebook pages
• Publicized TABLE events

Washington, DC, US

• Troubleshooted customers' computer problems and installed software updates
• Used Symantec Ghost to create backup images of computers over the network
• Set up equipment for e-ticket service at Ole Miss football games

• Facilitated the software upgrade when transitioning from Windows 2000 to Windows XP
• Troubleshooted issues such as printer, network file-sharing, and software problems
• Maintained hardware and replaced defective equipment, such as motherboards and graphics cards

Master Of Science, Information Science

Bachelor Of Arts, Sociology; Religious Studies; Music (Minor)