Brian Tobin

Brian Tobin

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ABOUT ME
Technology Leader, Core Developer
Technology Leader, Core Developer

Technology leader, blending expertise in full-stack engineering, computer vision, product design and strategy, with results-driven decision making and rapid innovation. Passionate about design thinking, open source, lightweight tooling and platforms. Focused on rapid application of new knowledge, building and nourishing teams, and executing strategies that reach product and technical goals with minimal waste and just-in-time sanity.

English
Pacific Time (US & Canada) (-07:00)
Joined April 2017
EXPERTISE
12 years experience
Extensive experience designing, building and scaling production level Python APIs with a number of popular python frameworks - FastAPI be...
Extensive experience designing, building and scaling production level Python APIs with a number of popular python frameworks - FastAPI being the new norm. Excellent knowledge of the python AI & Machine Learning ecosystem, as well as a number of data platforms and tools like Neptune, TensorBoard, JupyterLab and Anaconda. Direct experience with computer vision, building face and object recognition pipelines with tools like PyTorch, Sklearn, OpenCV, Dlib, as well as platforms like AWS Rekognition, Google Cloud Vision/Video Intelligence and Clarifai. Have written SQL and ETLs around a number of warehousing solutions and tools like Redshift, BigQuery, Looker, Segment, Mixpanel, Firehose, Firebase, MongoDB, and more. Have leverages Celery, Redis, RQ for async tasks as well as libs like JobLib, Ray and baseline python multiprocessing.
14 years experience
Expert in all things JavaScript, TypeScript and NodeJS. Extensive backend experience building APIs with libs like Express, Fastify, Nest,...
Expert in all things JavaScript, TypeScript and NodeJS. Extensive backend experience building APIs with libs like Express, Fastify, Nest, leveraging datastores like Datastore, Firestore, MongoDB as well as MySQL and Postgres. Have built complex applications with both React and Svelte, leveraging popular tools like CRA, Redux, EasyPeasy, ReactRouter, Formik, Gatsby... Have built SDKs using both React and ReactNative, with both Rollup and Webpack. Have built out JWT and oAuth2 strategies for both client credentials and API Key auth, with providers like Auth0 and Firebase. Massive fan of front-end, and all the latest HTML5/CSS/SCSS apis like Flexbox and Grids.

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EMPLOYMENTS
Independent Consultant
Self
2012-01-01-Present
Selected work: - Veeps 2020 — Product/Tech/Design consulting, Python, React and Rails development, Mux integrations for Live Streaming,...
Selected work: - Veeps 2020 — Product/Tech/Design consulting, Python, React and Rails development, Mux integrations for Live Streaming, Twilio and PubNub chat integrations, and more. - TopoHealth 2019/20 — HIPAA/HITRUST platform due diligence, exploring various providers and technology platforms. Data mining of clinical trials, pub med and other government resources to validate point of entry. Rapid design and prototyping of CRM for finding doctors who have participated in clinical trials. - Square, Yakka 2019 — POS admin and Flutter app support, ported Rails app to Node/Express, building out API proxy to Square for supporting a custom POS product for farmers markets. API was consumed by a Flutter app for managing timesheets and payroll. Leverages Firebase/Firestore and custom Square application auth tokens. - Google, Flutter 2018 — Flutter/Dart Material Design Playground for both iOS and Android, as part of the Flutter demo app and v1.0 London GoogleIO launch. - Red River West 2017 — CTO consulting for a French fund, performing due diligence for selected startups targeted for Series A investment and being brought to American market. - Hamilton, Posse 2017 — Designed Action based pub/sub ticketing and e-commerce API, leveraging Cloud Functions, Firebase, TypeScript, and Magento. - Twitter, Facebook 2016 — Dual sponsored project to design and build the first version of the PyTorch brand, website and documentation. Subcontracted designer, Jekyll site. - Digital Ocean 2013 — Product consulting, coaching, worked directly with CEO - RGA (Nike) 2013 — Managed teams and wrote core Javascript for Nike Commerce. - Madbits 2012 — Creative, rapid prototyping, Torch 7 in Lua, Sold to Twitter - VEVO 2011 — Core Android and Javascript developer.
Ruby
Python
Node.js
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Ruby
Python
Node.js
Twilio
React
JavaScript
Trello
Flutter
Mux
Fastapi
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CTO
Cinematique
2014-11-01-2018-06-01
Selected by Fast Company as a “Most Innovative Company in Video.” Cinematique reimagines the video experience by giving viewers the powe...
Selected by Fast Company as a “Most Innovative Company in Video.” Cinematique reimagines the video experience by giving viewers the power to shop, share, and learn more about the people, places and things on screen. Designed and built a touchable video platform, developing post-production tools, editors, a robust API and video player SDKs for adapting popular players into touchable technology. Scaled custom analytics pipelines to upwards of 1M requests per day. Transformed raw data into SQL for customer BI tools. Built teams of FTE and contractors, and managed various vendors including designers. Designed and managed a number of product management and success pipelines using Trello. Trained and fostered our product, success and analytics team members, creating a culture of learning and data-driven decision-making using products like Mixpanel, IntercomIO and Periscope Data.
Python
Django
Node.js
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Python
Django
Node.js
Firebase
Google BigQuery
Amazon Redshift
Circleci
React Native
Docker Compose
Anaconda
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CTO
Tycoon
2013-05-01-2014-11-01
Tycoon is an ETL and messaging application for Google Analytics, Skimlinks, LinkShare, Facebook and other related e-commerce, social an...
Tycoon is an ETL and messaging application for Google Analytics, Skimlinks, LinkShare, Facebook and other related e-commerce, social and affiliate data. Designed and developed an API and UI that provide a unique data storytelling experience, where users can build conversations around custom e-commerce and social data profiles. Produced a matching iPhone app. Setup custom nightly imports for an organizations data, including direct connections to internal SQL databases. Hired and managed various vendors.
Python
Django
MySQL
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Python
Django
MySQL
MongoDB
Angular
HTML5
Pandas
Saltstack/jenkins
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PROJECTS
Google Flutter Gallery
2019
Built a material design demo gallery for the Flutter gallery app and v1.0 release.
Built a material design demo gallery for the Flutter gallery app and v1.0 release.
Android
Flutter
Android
Flutter