Brian Buckley
Sr. Engineering Manager at Brookside Digital
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Buckley is a senior engineering manager and founder with over a decade of hands-on experience building cloud-native platforms, full-stack applications, and data systems that drive business outcomes. Currently leading engineering at CirrusLabs and running Brookside Digital, he blends product ownership with deep technical fluency across AWS, DevOps, MLOps, and LLM-based systems. His background spans startups to enterprise—shipping 0→1 products, architecting data warehouses and Rust-based accounting services, and scaling distributed teams across onshore and offshore locations. Comfortable debating system design with engineers and ROI with execs, he excels where there’s no playbook and rapid iteration is required. An early practitioner of ML-powered personalization and a current builder of agentic LLM workflows and generative media pipelines, he pairs academic curiosity (PhD candidacy hinted on GitHub) with pragmatic delivery. Based in Kansas City, he’s known for mentoring teams through change while keeping a clear line of sight to measurable business impact.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Missouri-Kansas CityUniversity of MissouriProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
buckleybrian/UCD-MSc-Data-Analytics
Feb 2015 - Nov 2016
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
buckleybrian/HMH-Demo
Feb 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:4 PRs, 21 pushes, 2 branches in 11 months
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