Brian Bulkowski
Board Member at The Box Shop
Menlo Park, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Bulkowski is a seasoned software engineer and founder with 16+ years building high-performance systems, best known as the founder and CTO of Aerospike, a low-latency, internet-scale database. He has repeatedly created and scaled engineering teams and architectures across startups and large companies—spanning embedded systems, networking, storage, and backend databases—with a favorite language of C and deep hands-on experience in systems design. At Meta he worked on storage privacy frameworks and cross-org VR/volumetric efforts, demonstrating an ability to bridge technical domains and organizational boundaries. Now based in Menlo Park and semi-retired as a board member, he’s channeling his technical creativity into Bay Area art and music projects while still advising on hard infrastructure problems. An engineer who measures success by the people around him, he blends founder-level product instincts with the practical craft of shipping robust, high-scale systems.
16 years of coding experience
33 years of employment as a software developer
ScB Math / Computer Science, ScB Math / Computer Science at Brown University
Stackoverflow
866reputation
298kreached
14answers
2questions
Github Skills (191)
python10
espressif10
shell10
fastled10
console10
led-controller10
database-driver10
wsl210
gate10
common-library10
matlab9
client-library9
rust9
google-plus9
windows9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
bbulkow/MagnusFlora
Apr 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:193 commits, 1 PR, 138 pushes in 8 months
FlamingLotusGirls/Serenity
Jul 2019 - Sep 2019
Things related to our flaming fireflies
Contributions:81 commits, 64 pushes in 1 month
python
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