Brian Picciano

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

• Author of radix, one of the recommended Redis drivers for Go.
• Primary author of cryptic-net, a foundation for a community-run cloud infrastructure.
• 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.)
• Long-term work on a toy (so far) programming language.

• 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.
• Implemented a custom, dc-aware service discovery system for our microservices-based app, using Etcd & SkyDNS. Included health checking, metrics, rolling-restarts, and more.
• Designed a Go-based framework for implementing microservices, which automatically handled configuration, logging, health checks, metrics, RPC/service discovery, and more.
• Implemented an internal RFC process for new product features and maintained the internal technical documentation wiki.
• Contributed to designing and implementing the provisioning/deployment system using Ansible, and began work on migrating to Kubernetes.

• 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.
• Designed and implemented the Feeds feature using PHP and Mongo, where users could see the recent listening activites of their friends in a Facebook-like feed.
• 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.
• Wrote and maintained the deployment scripts for frontend code, and contributed significantly to the Chef-based provisioning system.
• Initiated and oversaw the migration of frontend devs from using a shared development server to individual Vagrant setups.