Summary
Brian Schroer is a seasoned full-stack software engineer in San Francisco with 12 years building production web and mobile experiences, particularly with Ruby on Rails and modern JavaScript stacks like React and React Native. He has led front-end teams at e-commerce and nonprofit organizations, mentoring juniors while owning deploys and infrastructure via Docker, AWS, Jenkins, and Chef. His work spans from accessibility-driven UX and responsive redesigns to backend Rails APIs and Postgres tuning, reflecting a pragmatic bridge between product, design, and ops. Notably, he helped build a React/Rails platform serving people experiencing homelessness, demonstrating a commitment to impact-driven engineering alongside commercial e-commerce projects. Trained in digital anthropology (UCL) and cultural anthropology (UC Berkeley), he brings user-research sensibilities to technical decisions and code-level craftsmanship.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Cultural Anthropology, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Cultural Anthropology at University of California, Berkeley
University College London
Spanish