Bret Lowrey
Senior Engineering Manager at Ridgeline
Greater Reno Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBret Lowrey is a Senior Engineering Manager with 13 years of experience building and leading teams that deliver mission-critical software for FinTech and industrial systems. Currently running Ridgeline’s Post Trade team, he blends deep hands-on experience in backend services (Python, Java, C++) and cloud-native stacks on AWS with product-focused leadership across trade matching, settlement, and integrations like FIX and SWIFT. His career spans enterprise SaaS, real-time protection systems, and large advisory-facing web apps, giving him a rare comfort operating at both low-level systems and customer-facing product layers. Known for shepherding projects end-to-end—from greenfield architecture to CI/CD and maintenance—he’s equally comfortable mentoring engineers and coordinating cross-functional partners in distributed teams. Based in the Greater Reno Area, he brings a pragmatic, systems-first mindset and a track record of turning complex financial and industrial workflows into reliable, auditable software.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
The University of EdinburghUniversity of California, Irvine
English
Github Skills (13)
utilities7
requirejs7
javascript7
dependency-free7
enums6
lodash6
classes5
modularity5
data-exchange5
typescript5
javascript-tools4
es6-modules3
commonjs3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
lowrey/gh-profile
Dec 2017 - Sep 2023
A simple react/redux app that displays my github profile
Contributions:17 PRs, 14 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 9 months
reactdisplaysreact-reduxreduxreactjs
lowrey/railsongs
Apr 2018 - Sep 2023
Contributions:2 pushes in 5 years 6 months
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