Bill Magnuson
Co-founder, CEO at Braze
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBill Magnuson is a seasoned technology founder and engineer with 14 years of experience building product-led engineering organizations and scalable mobile and web platforms. As co-founder and CEO of Braze, he has guided the company from technical co-founder/CTO to leading a global customer engagement platform recognized for culture and growth. His hands-on background spans full-stack development and architecture—evident from contributions improving Rails asset tooling and dependency management—and a technical foundation from MIT in EECS and CS. Based in New York, he blends startup entrepreneurship with deep engineering instincts, often focusing on the build processes and developer experience that let teams move quickly and reliably.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Masters in EECS B.S. in Computer Science Minor in Economics, Masters in EECS B.S. in Computer Science Minor in Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (13)
dependency-management10
javascript10
rails10
requirejs10
ruby-on-rails10
build-automation10
erb9
sass6
mina6
linux6
io6
asset-pipeline6
java6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jwhitley/requirejs-rails
Jul 2012 - Jan 2013
RequireJS support for your Rails 3 or 4 application
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 1 comment in 5 months
Contributions summary:Bill primarily contributed to the Rails application by updating and integrating RequireJS support. They modified the engine to process configuration files using ERB and upgraded both require.js and r.js to their latest versions. Furthermore, the user added the capability to use the `map` configuration option within the Rails application. These changes reflect a focus on improving the project's build process and dependency management.
ruby-on-railsrailsrubyrequirejsstimulusjs
leonardo-ferreira07/appboy-ios-sdk
Sep 2013 - Sep 2013
Contributions:5 commits in 4 days
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