Brian Childress
Fractional CTO Principal Technical Advisor at Katilyst
Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Childress is a seasoned fractional CTO and principal technical advisor with over 20 years of hands-on engineering and leadership experience, specializing in helping steady, regulated businesses (healthcare, fintech, FEC/LBE) adopt practical AI and cloud-native practices. He scales SaaS platforms used by millions, trains engineering teams of 10–200 to ship faster, and reduces tool and cloud costs while keeping data safe—often delivering measurable improvements in weeks, not years. Known for plain-language coaching and outcome-based pricing, he turns skeptical engineers and runaway AI costs into predictable, repeatable delivery habits woven into daily workflows. Beyond advisory roles at startups, venture firms, and accelerators, he combines product-building experience with operator instincts from executive roles like President of Summit Scale and CTO stints at marketplace and scheduling platforms. An often-overlooked strength: he focuses on habit and process changes (code reviews, tests, docs) that make AI adoption stick rather than flashy point solutions. Based in Virginia, he prefers pragmatic wins over hype and gets paid for results, not hours.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Geographic Information Systems, Geographic Information Systems at North Carolina State UniversityBachelor of Science (BS), Bachelor of Science (BS) at Radford University
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Github Skills (57)
graphql-api10
database-events10
bigquery10
webhooks10
hasura10
sql-server10
subgraph10
api10
access-control10
rest-api10
graphql10
mongodb10
haskell10
flask10
data-science9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
brian-childress/node-authorization-middleware
Sep 2019 - May 2020
In this example we implement authorization (AuthZ) middleware using Node, Express, and JSON Web Tokens (JWT).
Contributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 8 months
authorizationauthzjsonwebtokenjwtmiddleware
brian-childress/resources
Dec 2020 - Jul 2022
A repository for commonly used resources, scripts, and reference material
Contributions:8 commits, 4 PRs, 23 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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