Personal details
Brian V.
Summary
Hi I'm Brian! I'm a full stack developer turned engineering manager with 10 years of experience in software engineering.
My biggest strength as a mentor is in the way I engage with fellow developers. While I love digging into technical challenges, I have found that a positive attitude and a human-centric approach to problem-solving are my sharpest tools. I hope to build a solid foundation of trust between us, so we can make the most of our time together.
I will never judge you. That means you can level with me. You've never written a unit test. Awesome, let's write one together. You've never heard of transaction isolation levels. Great, let's talk about what those are! I know I can help you because I help others all the time. Let's get to work!
Who am I, and what have I done?
I have worked with tiny companies running their applications on a toaster and I've worked with fortune 500 companies managing hundreds of applications in production. I've worked across many technology stacks: ASP.NET / C#, React / Vue / Angular / JavaScript / TypeScript / Node.js, and even a bit of Laravel / PHP. I've written queries and stored procedures, tuned indexes, and administered SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL databases. I've deployed many production systems to on-premise and cloud environments. I've set up production CI/CD systems using Github Actions, TeamCity, Octopus Deploy, and Concourse. I've used the alphabet soup of AWS services... EC2, ECS, S3, WAF, SQS, SES, SNS, and RDS to name a few. Anyway, I've seen a lot!
Technical skills
Work Experience
- Oversee 5 engineering teams working on different clients and projects with varying complexity
- Manage and grow 10 software engineers through regular 1:1s, continuous feedback, and coaching
- Provide technical vision and guidance through design collaboration, pairing, troubleshooting, and code review
- Work with product managers and business stakeholders to plan, implement, test, and release features
- Collect and analyze agile metrics to communicate project status and create useful forecasts
- Foster a culture of technical excellence, consulting expertise, and kindness across teams and throughout the organization
- Successfully migrated a production API from an AWS EC2 instance backed by SQL Server to an AWS ECS cluster backed by an Aurora MySQL cluster. The resulting solution saves thousands every month on infrastructure costs with a faster and more reliable system.
- Built and deployed new integrations to transmit visit verifications to external systems in real-time using AWS services such as ECS and SQS.
- Upheld quality standards throughout the software development lifecycle by collaborating with business stakeholders, designing highly available systems, and ensuring that automated tests applied to any new / modified software.
- Delivered constant business value to clients using Agile processes, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and infrastructure-as-code.