Brian Bachtel
Senior Director Of Engineering at Best Friends Animal Society
Charlotte Metro United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Bachtel is a Senior Director of Engineering with 13+ years building and scaling digital platforms across e-commerce, finance, and media, currently leading engineering at Best Friends Animal Society and consulting independently. He combines full-stack technical depth (Golang, Node, React), cloud and SRE expertise, and proven product delivery—having managed 50+ engineers to launch 100+ products and driven measurable improvements in performance, fraud reduction, and retention. Brian excels at translating business strategy into architecture and KPIs, leading cloud migrations that cut costs 33% and performance initiatives that halved load times and boosted conversions. He’s as comfortable architecting event-driven microservices and data pipelines as he is defining career trajectories to reduce attrition and scale teams rapidly. An analytics-minded operator, he repeatedly uses data to uncover fraud patterns, operational bottlenecks, and product opportunities that produce multi-million dollar outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Business Administration Business Management Computer Information Systems, Business Administration Business Management Computer Information Systems at Kent State University
Github Skills (8)
api9
google8
golang7
testing5
database4
tdd4
sql3
go2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
colinmutter/gads
Oct 2015 - Jun 2017
Google Adwords API for Go
Contributions:9 releases, 52 commits, 26 PRs in 1 year 7 months
golangapigoogleadwords-apigoogle-adwords
bbachtel/gads
Oct 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:1 release, 4 PRs, 18 pushes in 6 months
golangapigoogleadwords-apigoogle-adwords
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