Brett Crowell
Principal Software Engineer at Appcues
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrett Crowell is a Principal Software Engineer in Boston with 11 years of experience building and leading web and mobile product engineering at Appcues and prior roles at Nielsen, Affinnova, and MIT. He combines front-end expertise (Ember.js/Handlebars, D3) with backend and data experience (Groovy/Grails, C#, SQL, MongoDB), driving modernization efforts and product-focused engineering. A people-first leader, he has progressed from hands-on developer to principal-level architect and coach, repeatedly owning critical initiatives like mobile respondent UIs and flagship web applications. His career began with practical systems work at Bose and MIT co-ops and includes cross-functional roles bridging design, client services, and engineering. Known for curiosity across many technologies, he often surfaces opportunities to help others and streamline processes behind the scenes. Passionate about shipping reliable user-facing software, he brings both operational rigor and a habit of mentoring teams through change.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Northeastern UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at University at Buffalo
Spanish
Github Skills (30)
testing6
react5
react-components4
saml4
linux4
test-runner4
windows4
adfs4
wysiwyg4
ava4
aws4
chai4
grails3
macos3
cli3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
brettcrowell/halftone
Dec 2014 - Oct 2016
Contributions:209 commits, 12 PRs, 31 pushes in 1 year 11 months
brettcrowell/node-gphoto2-timelapse
Feb 2015 - Aug 2016
Contributions:156 commits, 8 PRs, 95 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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