Bret Mcgowen
Cofounder, Technical Lead at VINYL.tv
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolBret Mcgowen is a Principal technical lead and full-stack software engineering leader with 12+ years of experience building user-focused web applications across Google, startups, enterprise, government labs, and consulting. He blends hands-on expertise in JavaScript, C#, .NET, React, Node.js, Python and Ruby on Rails with product-minded collaboration across design, business and engineering teams. At Google he delivered developer-facing technical content and reference architectures while surfacing real developer feedback to product teams, and he’s given 80+ conference talks including Google I/O and Cloud Next. Bret has repeatedly led small-to-medium engineering teams and co-founded multiple ventures, bringing startup speed and architectural discipline to established organizations. Based in NYC and originally from Texas, he pairs clear technical communication and public speaking experience with a pragmatic focus on performance, usability, and continuous process improvement. As a quirkier note, he’s a self-described raccoon enthusiast—proof he brings curiosity and personality to technical leadership.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Texas A&M University
Stackoverflow
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firebase
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ffmpeg
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google-cloud-functions
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Github Skills (45)
kotlin10
cdn10
google-cloud-functions10
android-sdk10
java10
automl10
translate10
auth10
ffmpeg9
entity-framework-core9
asp-net-core9
asp-net9
group-chat9
appengine9
firebase9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
bretmcg/google-home-workshop
Jul 2017 - Jan 2023
Contributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 11 pushes in 5 years 6 months
bretmcg/bretmcg
Feb 2021 - Jul 2026
Contributions:25 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 5 months
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