Bear Cherian
Senior Software Engineer II at Bestow
Dallas, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolBear Cherian is a seasoned Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building and operating backend systems, currently shaping infrastructure and APIs at Bestow after senior roles at GitHub and InVision. He specializes in Go microservices, database migrations (MySQL, MongoDB), observability, and load testing, consistently translating product needs into reliable, performant services. Past roles show a strong full-stack and architecture background—leading CMS and eCommerce platform builds, large-data migrations, and multi-environment deployment strategies. He pairs hands-on engineering with mentoring and code review, having led teams through complex integrations and internationalization efforts. Based in Dallas, he blends enterprise-grade discipline from Villanova and higher-ed systems with startup-speed delivery across modern stacks. A pragmatic problem-solver, he often surfaces operational improvements (CI, tracing, analytics) that prevent future incidents while enabling faster feature delivery.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BA Broadcasting Telecommunications & Mass Media, BA Broadcasting Telecommunications & Mass Media at Temple UniversityMaster of Science Software Engineering, Master of Science Software Engineering at Villanova University
Malayalam
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Github Skills (100)
swagger10
oas10
rest-api10
openapi10
api10
crx10
rest10
adobe-experience-manager10
aem10
oak9
sling-models9
sling9
jcr9
relic8
go-client8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
FederationOfFathers/user-registry
Sep 2018 - Jun 2021
Contributions:4 PRs, 4 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 9 months
FederationOfFathers/dashboard
May 2017 - Oct 2022
the cli executable from which the new dashboard project will live...
Contributions:148 PRs, 223 pushes, 101 branches in 5 years 5 months
dashboardexecutablecli
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