Brendan Berg
Founder at FactoryFactory
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrendan Berg is a seasoned engineering leader with 19 years of experience building scalable application infrastructure across e-commerce, media, and advertising, and is currently Director of Engineering at Canela Media in Los Angeles. He combines hands-on backend expertise—demonstrated by contributions to O'Reilly’s Introduction to Tornado sample code including social auth, long polling, and WebSocket work—with senior leadership roles at AWS, Thirstie, and Refinery29. As co-founder and CTO of Wurk Happy and founder of consulting shops, he has repeatedly translated business needs into secure, microservice-based architectures and product-ready platforms. Brendan’s background bridging product, art, and operations (BA in Computer Science and Studio Art) surfaces in pragmatic technical designs that consider user experience and creative workflows. He’s known for initiating large migrations from monoliths to APIs and for shipping real-time, interactive features that power customer-facing platforms.
20 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BA Computer Science, Studio Art, BA Computer Science, Studio Art at Bard CollegeKent School
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (17)
python10
tornado10
authentication10
user-authentication10
long-polling9
websocket9
facebook8
twitter8
javascript7
macos6
sensor6
iphone6
makefile6
gcc6
ios6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Introduction-to-Tornado/Introduction-to-Tornado
Nov 2011 - Sep 2014
This is the sample code for the Introduction to Tornado book, published by O'Reilly Media.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 2 pushes, 1 issue in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Brendan primarily contributed to the development of backend functionalities for external authentication, specifically integrating Twitter and Facebook login capabilities. Their work included implementing Tornado web handlers, defining application settings, and creating templates for user interfaces. They also worked on long polling and WebSocket implementations to enable real-time updates in the application, demonstrating a focus on interactive and dynamic web features.
publishedo-reillytornado
brendanberg/dbn
Feb 2019 - Feb 2026
Draw By Numeral
Contributions:6 PRs, 59 pushes, 8 branches in 7 years 1 month
graphicspixel-artprogramming-language
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