Brian Buchalter
Staff Software Engineer at Gusto
Longmont, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Buchalter is a Staff Software Engineer with 15+ years of experience specializing in Ruby on Rails, systems engineering, and building resilient developer platforms. He has led mission-critical programs at Gusto—rebooting abandoned initiatives, improving incident response culture, and empowering domain experts to manage complex payroll configuration. Previously at Shopify and Tommy John he shipped tooling for online schema migrations, multi-region failover practices, and scaled e-commerce platforms built on Solidus/Spree. An open-source contributor to Solidus and rubyzip, his test-focused commits and backend fixes emphasize robustness and maintainability across widely used Ruby projects. Based in Longmont, Colorado, he blends hands-on Linux/DevOps skills with team-building and hiring experience, mentoring dozens of engineers and bootstrapping new teams. Notably, he pairs deep Rails expertise (since 2006) with practical operational know-how around DB replication, CI, and cloud-based developer experience.
15 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Entreprenurship, BS, Entreprenurship at Syracuse University - Martin J. Whitman School of ManagementBS, Information Technology & Management, BS, Information Technology & Management at Syracuse University
English, ruby, javascript, bash
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Github Skills (12)
ecommerce10
testing10
ruby-rails10
model-view-controller10
rails10
api-design10
commerce10
test-automation10
ruby10
factory-bot9
rspec9
sql8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
solidusio/solidus
Apr 2016 - Jun 2017
🛒 Solidus, the open-source eCommerce framework for industry trailblazers.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:29 commits, 18 PRs, 172 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Brian contributed primarily to the core functionality of the Solidus e-commerce framework. Their work included fixing bugs related to order searching, removing obsolete attributes from the API, and ensuring the validity of factory objects. Furthermore, they refactored class descriptions and added terse descriptions for various models, improving code documentation. They also created a placeholder for a store credit form and improved the admin interface, showing a strong understanding of the application's architecture.
ecommercerailssolidusrubyshopping-cart
rubyzip/rubyzip
Jan 2021 - Jan 2021
Official Rubyzip repository
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:1 review, 7 commits, 3 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Brian primarily contributed to test-related modifications within the `rubyzip/rubyzip` repository. Their commits involved updating and refactoring tests, including adjustments to test assertions and removal of deprecated behaviors related to output separators. Furthermore, the user simplified assertions and modified the test structure to provide better feedback in the event of test failures. The contributions focused on enhancing the robustness and maintainability of the testing infrastructure for the library.
encryptionrubyrubyzipzip-extraction
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