Brian Chesley
Engineering Manager at January
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Chesley is an engineering manager with 11 years of experience leading teams through high-risk rewrites and scaling efforts at high-growth startups, currently overseeing a communications engine that leverages machine learning to optimize message timing, channel, and content. He has driven dramatic platform scaling—rewriting a payments system that grew from tens to over a million plans per day—while improving reliability and customer trust. Hands-on across backend, data engineering, and ML-informed product decisions, he pairs technical ownership of revenue-impacting systems with a talent for guiding engineers into strong technical leaders. Brian’s background spans data engineering, statistical modeling, and full-stack delivery, and he brings a practical, metrics-driven approach from roles at January, Daugherty, and Post Holdings. Based in New York, he emphasizes building healthy engineering cultures and long-term technical strategy in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts (M.A.), Statistics, Master of Arts (M.A.), Statistics at Washington University in St. LouisBA, Economics, BA, Economics at Carleton College
English, Spanish
Github Skills (2)
a-z10
python6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
brianchesley/Lyrics
Dec 2014 - Sep 2019
A-Z lyrics Scraping
Contributions:8 commits, 3 PRs, 15 pushes in 4 years 9 months
pythona-zlyricslyrics-scrapingscraping
brianchesley/scrabble_game
Mar 2019 - Jun 2019
A word game that is similar to Scrabble
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 pushes, 5 branches in 2 months
gamesimilarscrabbleword-game
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