Brian Springer Email & Phone Number

Palo Alto, California, US

Branch is an AdTech company facilitating deep linking and modeled performance measurement across a breadth of channels.I joined as an individual contributor (IC) at Series A and played a pivotal role in assisting founders to grow the company to >2B valuation.- Successfully grew the engineering division from 5 to >60- Built teams comprising.

Palo Alto, California, US

- Built an event pipeline on Spark streaming used to process 20B events daily with low latency.- Built a graph data store on Aerospike, storing users and activity.- Built an analytics data store from scratch on top of Aerospike, using boolean operations on HLLs to support uniques.- Built an edge gateway based on Nginx in Lua which handles routing.

Stockholm, Stockholm County, SE

I worked in several different areas at Spotify in a short time: a stealth mode video delivery frontend/backend platform, Ads team and finally the launch of artist analytics.My favorite piece of work at Spotify was building the concert recommendation backend. This was fairly skunkworks and involved integrating external data sets and large scale data.

London, GB

I worked as one of 4 senior technical leads responsible for architecture and oversight in a systems engineering organization of 300+ people. I also did individual contributor work as a technical lead in a scrum team of 8 people.My scrum team was charged with forward looking initiatives within the systems organization. I was most recently focused on a CI/CD.

Redmond, Washington, US

I was a Software Development Engineer (SDE) in the Digital Media Division of Windows working on player releases from Windows XP to early Windows 7. I worked on cloud based services to support the Windows Media player, before it was called cloud.These web services included media library and media recognition services that were built at Windows client scale..

Redmond, Washington, US

I worked as a Software Analyst and was among a handful of employees to launch Microsoft Licensing in Reno. I did development and technical support for web based applications used to support Microsoft's OEM business around the world. **Role Included**: • Mircosoft SQL Server troubleshooting, coding and performance tuning. • C# coding of backend.

I worked as a sole proprietor of a programming and networking consultancy shop in Reno, NV. I worked on several contracts with area businesses including the local telco at the time, Nevada Bell (now AT&T). Role Included: • Business development with area contacts. • Microsoft networking and web coding. • Systems integration with mainframe and midrange.

I worked for a small consultancy based in Reno, NV and doing west coast contract work in the Bay Area, Southern California and Denver. I worked on several contracts including an embedded systems contract in the defense industry. Role Included: - Microsoft networking and C++ coding. - Embedded systems coding in C.