Brian Bauman
Director Of Engineering at Pinwheel – Therapist-Backed Kid Tech
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Bauman is a Director of Engineering based in Austin with nine years of leadership experience building cloud-native products, mobile apps, and developer teams. He combines hands-on proficiency across the full stack—from Progressive Web Apps and native Android/iOS to Java and Go microservices, Kubernetes, and CI/CD—with a founder’s mindset honed at Gigday. Known for turning slow processes into repeatable systems, he has delivered services faster than expected at large enterprises like Visa and built production-ready mobile tooling and CI pipelines at Cox Automotive. He’s an educator and decisive leader who fosters a culture where speaking up and reasoned debate are expected, not optional. As an active mobile contributor, he’s improved native Firebase integrations in popular Cordova plugins, demonstrating deep cross-platform mobile and native SDK experience. He continues to blend curiosity with execution to scale teams, systems, and developer productivity.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (7)
crashlytics10
android-java10
android-app10
firebase10
cordova10
analytics10
notification8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
arnesson/cordova-plugin-firebase
Sep 2018 - Apr 2019
Cordova plugin for Google Firebase
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)
Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)Contributions:24 commits, 16 PRs, 6 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily contributed to the `cordova-plugin-firebase` repository by modifying both the Android (Java) and iOS (Objective-C/Swift) native code. Their changes involved updating Firebase SDK versions, initializing Firebase services on app startup, and implementing specific Firebase features such as Crashlytics, analytics and token retrieval. The contributions also included modifying build scripts to integrate Firebase Crashlytics functionality.
google-firebasecordovafirebaseandroidnotifications
briantq/cordova-plugin-firebase
Sep 2018 - Oct 2018
Cordova plugin for Google Firebase
Contributions:25 pushes, 31 branches, 6 tags in 1 month
google-firebasecordovafirebaseandroidcordova-plugin
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