Brian Buchanan
Owner at HEADLINE INTERNATIONAL, LLC
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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SeniorBrian Buchanan is a founder and owner of Headline International with 17 years of technology and product experience helping $5M–$25M businesses scale through repeatable, measurable online lead-generation systems. He combines deep engineering chops from roles at Ask Jeeves, nCircle, and BigFix with hands-on marketing strategy to optimize websites and online advertising for lower-cost customer acquisition. Based in Amsterdam, he blends boutique consultancy sensibilities with pragmatic systems thinking, turning complex technical integrations into predictable growth engines. An active contributor to cloud tooling, his code work on the erlcloud project added EC2, SQS and SimpleDB support for Erlang, reflecting his comfort across backend APIs and distributed systems. Brian also coaches founders—translating technical architectures into teachable business systems—and is known for pairing research-driven tactics with tight execution.
17 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (19)
erlang10
apidoc10
api10
aws10
amazon-sqs9
ec9
aws-sqs-fifo9
amazon-ec29
sql-db9
xml9
activerecord6
ruby-on-rails6
model-view-controller6
backbonejs6
actionmailer6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
erlcloud/erlcloud
Mar 2010 - Oct 2010
AWS APIs library for Erlang (Amazon EC2, S3, SQS, DDB, ELB and etc)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:41 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Brian's contributions center around implementing and expanding the functionality of the erlcloud library, specifically focusing on the Amazon EC2 API. They added skeleton code for various EC2 API functions, and subsequently implemented the core logic for a range of actions. Their work involved defining data structures, and implementing various API calls. The user also added support for Amazon SimpleDB and SQS APIs.
amazon-ec2awserlang
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