Brian Bates
Director Of Engineering, US at AiFi Inc.
Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Bates is a results-driven engineering leader based in Austin with nearly a decade of hands-on software and embedded systems experience, now serving as Director of Engineering for AiFi’s US operations. He combines product-focused agile leadership with deep technical chops—from firmware and PCB design to mobile and backend development—built while founding an embedded/mobile consultancy and shipping consumer products at Nexersys. Known for operational rigor, he has driven major test automation and CI/CD improvements (including a 95% regression runtime reduction) and served as Scrum Master across multiple teams. Brian’s career blends startup grit and manufacturing know-how, enabling him to translate product vision into reliable, production-grade hardware-software systems.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
MS Electrical Engineering, MS Electrical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (25)
sanic10
benchmark9
python9
benchmarking9
api-server9
nunjucks9
python-web9
http-server8
asgi8
server8
asyncio7
web-development7
occlusion6
jenkins-api-plugin6
web-framework5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
brian-bates/kai
Aug 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:7 releases, 45 commits, 13 PRs in 8 months
brian-bates/dotfiles
Jul 2016 - Oct 2020
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
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