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+ The design of this site is based on the layout and color theme of + the IDE I use for all my development. I use + Neovim in a terminal, with the + Papercolor + theme for readability. +

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+ The server hosting this site, and all of my other services, lives + in my living room. +

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Brian Picciano

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Senior Backend Engineer

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University of Florida 2013 · BS Software Engineering · Mathematics Minor

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+ 12+ years of experience across backend systems, + databases, and application development. Passionate about + clean interfaces, good documentation, and open source. +

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+ Extensively experienced with:
+ Go, Javascript-HTML-CSS, Nix, Bash, Lua, Clojure, Erlang;
+ Redis, Postgres, Cassandra/Scylla, Mongo;
+ Nginx, Caddy, Prometheus/Grafana, ELK stack;
+ Many flavors of Linux; Docker. +

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+ 7+ years of experience working remotely as a + developer. Well-versed in communicating over slack, zoom, + and email, and in maintaining good working relationships + across large timezone differences. +

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+ I also have past experience with many other languages and + tools which I could easily pick back up. +

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Open-Source

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+ I publish all my personal work to + GitHub + and + Gitea. +

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+ I frequently document the progress of my various projects + on my blog. +

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  • + Author of + radix, + one of the recommended Redis drivers for Go. +
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  • + Primary author of cryptic-net, + a foundation for a community-run cloud infrastructure. +
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  • + Author of dehub, + a git project hosting platform baked into the project's + commit history itself. (It's not much used, even by me, + but it's functional and I'm proud of it.) +
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  • + Long-term work on a toy (so far) + programming language. +
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Cryptowatch

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+ May 2019 - Present
+ Lead Backend Engineer
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+ Cryptowatch, a + subsidiary of + Kraken, is a + multi-exchange cryptocurrency trading and analytics + platform, as well as an up-and-coming crypto social + media platform. +

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  • + As BE dev lead of 4-person accounts/payments sub-team, + responsible for: +
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    • + Migration to JWT-based authentication/session + system. +
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    • + "Magic button", a project to funnel Kraken users + into CW while pre-installing API keys into their + account. +
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  • + Worked with Kraken security team to triage and fix a + large portion of security issues brought up during + audits and bug bounties. Included addition of + proof-of-work checks to many sensitive endpoints and + complete overhaul of how settings were stored. +
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  • + Designed and implemented alerts platform, capable of + alerting users based on arbitrary complex rulesets. +
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Admiral

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+ May 2015 - January 2018
+ Co-Founder
+ Senior Backend Engineer
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+ getadmiral.com is a + platform to help publishers analyze and recover revenue + being lost due to adblocking users. +

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  • + Wrote a custom analytics platform in Go, using Google + BigTable as backing store and Redis/Mongo as aggregation + caches. Handled a global load of >27 million new rows + an hour, with up-to-the-hour analytics for all + customers. +
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  • + Implemented a custom, dc-aware service discovery system + for our microservices based app, using Etcd & + SkyDNS. Included health checking, metrics, + rolling-restarts, and more. +
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  • + Designed Go-based framework for implementing + microservices which automatically handled configuration, + logging, health checks, metrics, RPC/service discovery, + and more. +
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  • + Implemented an internal RFC process for new product + features and maintained the internal technical + documentation wiki. +
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  • + Contributed to designing and implementing the + provisioning/deployment system using Ansible, and began + work on migrating to Kubernetes. +
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Grooveshark

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+ Senior Systems Engineer (from intern)
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+ Grooveshark was a web-based music streaming site in the + same vein as Spotify. +

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  • + Wrote client-to-client communication server in Erlang + (with Redis backend) which served as the backbone of the + Broadcasts feature, where users host their own + radio-like channels, complete with voting, real-time + chat, and moderation. +
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  • + Designed and implemented Feeds feature using PHP and + Mongo, where users could see the recent listening + activites of their friends in a Facebook-like feed. +
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  • + Managed and fine-tuned LAMP stack, as well as oversaw + migration from Apache to nginx/php-fpm. Maintained + complex nginx setup, including use of the lua-scripting + module on some domains. +
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  • + Wrote and maintained the deployment scripts for frontend + code, and contributed significantly to the Chef-based + provisioning system. +
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  • + Initiated and oversaw the migration of frontend devs + from using a shared development server to individual + Vagrant setups. +
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About This Site

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+ The design of this site is based on the layout and color theme of + the IDE I use for all my development. I use + Neovim in a terminal, with the + Papercolor + theme for readability. +

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+ The server hosting this site, and all of my other services, lives + in my living room. +

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