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<h1 style="margin-bottom:1rem;">Brian Picciano</h1>
<h2 style="margin-bottom:0;font-size:2rem;">Senior Backend Engineer</h2>
<h2 style="font-size:1.8rem;">University of Florida 2013 · BS Software Engineering · Mathematics Minor</h2>
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<em>12+ years</em> of experience across backend systems,
databases, and application development. Passionate about
clean interfaces, good documentation, and open source.
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<strong>Extensively experienced with:</strong><br/>
Go, Javascript-HTML-CSS, Nix, Bash, Lua, Clojure, Erlang;<br/>
Redis, Postgres, Cassandra/Scylla, Mongo;<br/>
Nginx, Caddy, Prometheus/Grafana, ELK stack;<br/>
Many flavors of Linux; Docker.
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<em>7+ years</em> 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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<h4>Open-Source</h4>
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I publish all my personal work to
<a href="https://github.com/mediocregopher">GitHub</a>
and
<a href="https://code.betamike.com/mediocregopher">Gitea</a>.
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I frequently document the progress of my various projects
on <a href="https://blog.mediocregopher.com">my blog</a>.
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Author of
<a href="https://github.com/mediocregopher/radix">radix</a>,
one of the recommended Redis drivers for Go.
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Primary author of <a href="https://code.betamike.com/cryptic-io/cryptic-net">cryptic-net</a>,
a foundation for a community-run cloud infrastructure.
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Author of <a href="https://code.betamike.com/mediocregopher/dehub">dehub</a>,
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)
<a href="https://github.com/mediocregopher/ginger">programming language</a>.
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<h4>Cryptowatch</h4>
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May 2019 - Present<br/>
Lead Backend Engineer<br/>
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<a href="https://cryptowat.ch">Cryptowatch</a>, a
subsidiary of
<a href="https://kraken.com">Kraken</a>, 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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Architecture design, proposals, standards,
documentation, and JIRA tickets.
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One-on-ones and evaluation of all team members, as
well as hiring of new team members.
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Code reviews, deployments, and, occasionally, even
development work.
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Oversaw projects such as:
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Migration of all accounts and payments functionality
from a monolith into microservices.
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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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<h4>Admiral</h4>
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May 2015 - January 2018<br/>
Co-Founder<br/>
Senior Backend Engineer<br/>
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<a href="https://getadmiral.com">getadmiral.com</a> 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 &gt;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 &amp;
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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<h4>Grooveshark</h4>
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Senior Systems Engineer (from intern)<br/>
2010 - Apr 2015<br/>
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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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<h4>About This Site</h4>
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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
<a href="https://neovim.io/">Neovim</a> in a terminal, with the
<a href="https://github.com/NLKNguyen/papercolor-theme">Papercolor</a>
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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