Brian Bruns is a product designer and seasoned web developer with 24 years' experience designing responsive, scalable web and mobile interfaces from Bellingham, Washington. Currently at Brivity, he blends UX design with hands-on front-end development to create immersive, user-focused experiences for large-scale applications. His background spans practical engineering tasks—like modernizing web assets and scripting in SolidWorks—to deep back-end contributions in renowned open-source projects such as mdbtools and FreeTDS, where he fixed low-level C bugs and improved database interoperability. Comfortable working across tooling and teams, Brian is goal-oriented and continuously hones both design sensibility and technical depth to integrate into international projects.
24 years of coding experience
Computer Science, Computer Science at Arizona State University
Contributions:58 commits, 4 PRs, 8 pushes in 6 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily contributed to the `mdbtools/mdbtools` repository by patching and modifying C source code files related to Access database functionality. Their contributions focused on enhancing the software's ability to read and interpret Access database files. Specific modifications involved bounds checking, handling of memo fields, and integration with ODBC drivers. The user also fixed issues and added support for PostgreSQL data types and export functionality.
Contributions summary:Brian contributed to the FreeTDS project, which implements the Tabular DataStream (TDS) protocol. The commits focused on bug fixes within the codebase, including a return type misinterpretation in the `tds_money_to_string` function, fixes for SQL_DATE handling in ODBC, and changes to the handling of client messages and data binding. Code changes were spread across various files related to conversion, ODBC functionality, and low-level TDS operations.
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