Brian Durand
Software Architect at SwoopMe, Inc.
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Durand is a pragmatic software architect with 12+ years of experience designing and hands-on building high-scale web systems from startup to enterprise. He has led architecture and scaling efforts for consumer platforms handling millions of daily users and hundreds of thousands of requests per minute, with deep operational experience in Ruby on Rails, distributed databases, caching, search, and message queues. Brian excels at translating product constraints into simple, maintainable solutions and mentoring small teams to operate at large scale on limited budgets. His career spans roles from Tribune's enterprise architecture to chief architect at We Heart It and current software architect at SwoopMe, demonstrating consistent delivery of resilient backend and data-tier systems. He pairs a coder’s curiosity—regularly working in codebases to spot future problems—with strategic influence as a senior management advisor. Based in San Francisco, he blends a liberal arts BA in math, history and philosophy with decades of pragmatic engineering judgment.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Math, History, Philosophy, BA, Math, History, Philosophy at University of Wisconsin-Madison
English, German
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Github Skills (56)
rails10
ruby10
logfile10
html10
logging10
mvc9
strong-typing9
database9
relay9
replication9
activerecord9
graphql-ruby8
graphql8
ruby-on-rails8
sql8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
bdurand/is_it_broken
Sep 2018 - Jul 2022
Ruby gem for defining the health status of a ruby application.
Contributions:5 PRs, 22 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years 10 months
ruby-gemtest-kitchenrailshealthstatus
bdurand/restrainer
Oct 2015 - Jul 2026
Ruby code for throttling workloads so as not to overwhelm external services.
Contributions:2 releases, 2 PRs, 19 pushes in 10 years 10 months
rubythrottling
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