Bryan Grounds

• • Senior Software Engineer | Full Stack
  • Whitepages
  • JUL 2022 - MAR 2024
  • • Engineered payment features, SEO & CRO initiatives, customer service & fraud tools, page redesigns, APIs, performance enhancements, bug fixes, and CMS integrations for a high traffic ecommerce site
    • Drove business initiatives resulting in increased revenue, operational efficiency, and product reliability
    • Initiated quality efforts around static types, language upgrades, end-to-end automated testing, and CI/CD
    • Supported, mentored, coached, and fostered positive relationships among engineers across teams
    • Defined, reviewed, and drove project proposals, tasks, design documents, processes, and code changes
    • Technologies: Node.js, TypeScript, Vue.js, Kotlin, Python, Kubernetes, Sanity, Amplitude, Sumo logic
• • Senior Software Engineer | Full Stack
  • Marco Experiences
  • NOV 2021 - JUN 2022
  • • Automated customer and vendor onboarding processes (Airtable, Sanity, Retool)
    • Developed & maintained web, payment, and permissions systems (TypeScript, React, Next.js, Auth0)
• • Software Engineer 2 | Full Stack
  • Microsoft (IC3)
  • JUL 2020 - NOV 2021
  • • IC3 powers video and related services for Teams, Skype, etc, serving hundreds of millions of users
    • Operated, maintained, & automated data collection and ML training pipeline for background replacement
    • Designed, implemented, and optimized a distributed seating algorithm for MS Teams video call attendees
• • Software Engineer 2 | Full Stack
  • Microsoft (Mixer)
  • JAN 2018 - JUL 2020
  • • Served tens of thousands of concurrent streamers and viewers and millions of monthly active users
    • Worked on the video team hardening, scaling, and maintaining production services and infrastructure
    • Co-developed patented adaptive bitrate system for FTL, our industry leading sub-second latency protocol
    • Led the team through a culture change focused on quality and high reliability systems
    • • Led service migration to a CI/CD model leveraging Azure DevOps and Docker containerization
      • Convinced management of the value of testing and fought to secure budget to support it
      • Led development of front-end test suite to verify video playback and quality across browsers and devices
      • Led development of end-to-end video streaming test suite that ran nightly and gated production releases
    • Introduced an active network monitoring system deployed across 21 global data centers
    • Optimized cloud storage for video uploads resulting in ~$3M in annual savings without cutting features
    • Maintained and developed software in golang, C, C++, C#, Node.js, TypeScript, Bash, and Haskell
• • Software Engineer | Full Stack
  • Sunlight Payments
  • JUL 2017 - DEC 2017
  • • Employee #9 at a startup payments platform with a highly experienced, remote engineering team
    • Maintained and developed features for AWS infrastructure, business logic, REST API, and web UI
    • Used advanced Scala features including free monad based DSLs and generative property-based testing
• • Software Engineer | Full Stack
  • Electronic Arts
  • SEP 2015 - JUN 2017
  • • Led & coached small team in building a real-time dashboard for game client telemetry data
    • • Developed CI/CD pipeline with Gitlab, automating deployment of front end resources to S3
      • Built system to ingest and summarize Kafka events and push live updates to dashboard over WebSockets
      • Built Node.js application to manage ingestion of events, preprocessing in SQS, and staging in S3
    • Built a customer incident dashboard using Node.js microservices, Redis, React, D3, and JIRA REST APIs
    • Built a dashboard remote and admin console app using Node.js, Cordova, WebSockets, S3, and EC2
    • Built system to allow users to control content displayed on video wall dashboards from mobile clients
    • Performed ad hoc data analysis and reporting tasks in R, plotting with ggplot2
• • Research Assistant | Full Stack Engineer
  • UCSD CALAB
  • JUN 2013 - SEP 2013
  • • Led development of user activity prediction app using GPS, gyroscope, accelerometer, and mic data
    • Wrote Python server (numpy + mlpy) to extract feature vectors, train SVM, send predictions to iPhones
• • Engineer, Intern | Full Stack
  • General Atomics
  • 2012 - 2013
  • • Worked with R&D team under clearance to develop flight planning and simulation tool in Java
• • Instructor, Volunteer
  • CALIT2
  • 2012 - 2013
  • • Improved existing schematics; organized and led occasional guitar distortion pedal workshops
• • Sergeant (E5)
  • US Marine Corps
  • 2004 - 2009
  • • Served as a radar technician and marksmanship instructor; taught, coached, supervised 1000+ Marines

Current as of 2024-10-25