Brett Fishman
Senior Staff Engineer (Technical Leader) at Cisco Meraki
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrett Fishman is a Senior Staff Engineer and technical leader with nearly two decades of experience building and scaling product and platform engineering at companies from startups to IPOs. He spent eight years at Stitch Fix driving platform strategy, leading migrations like GraphQL federation and MDM adoption, and founding teams focused on developer experience, SLOs, and design systems. Brett pairs hands-on engineering (service design, integrations, and data pipelines) with people leadership—mentoring managers, reorganizing roles for clarity, and keeping teams productive through strategic change. His work has directly unlocked tens of millions in savings through pricing and catalog re-architecture and turned multi-week content workflows into hour-scale processes. Now at Cisco Meraki, he continues to shape cross-functional platforms that reduce friction and boost developer productivity. A former professional songwriter turned engineer, he brings creative problem-solving and empathy to technical strategy and team culture.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. Music, B.A. Music at University of Southern CaliforniaComputer Science coursework, Computer Science coursework at De Anza CollegeComputer Science coursework, Computer Science coursework at Foothill CollegeMusic, Music at Indiana University Bloomington
Github Skills (61)
stimulusjs10
tracer9
ruby9
resque9
ids8
datadog8
protobuf8
trace8
json-objects8
rpc8
rabbitmq8
gateway8
opentracing8
rails8
serialization8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
stitchfix/log_weasel
Apr 2017 - Jan 2022
Instrument Rails and Resque with shared transaction IDs to trace execution of a unit of work across applications and application instances.
Contributions:5 releases, 20 reviews, 130 commits in 4 years 10 months
instancesexecution-traceresquerailsunit-of-work
brettfishman/pact-support
Apr 2020 - May 2020
Shared code for Pact gems
Contributions:6 pushes, 8 branches in 1 day
gemspactshared-code
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