Brian Clarkson
Staff Software Engineer, Back End at Niche
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Clarkson is a Staff Back End Software Engineer based in Pittsburgh with 11 years of industry experience and a strong academic foundation (CS, 3.945 GPA). He sets technical direction for a multi-team "Systems Intelligence" pod at Niche, mentors engineers across levels, and played a central role in the Direct Admissions initiative that rethinks college admissions. Comfortable owning distributed, containerized microservices built with Go, PostgreSQL, Kafka, and Elasticsearch, he also brings prior EHR and embedded systems experience from Epic and VIAVI. Brian enjoys low-level tooling and developer productivity—Linux, vim, and refactoring are recurring themes in his work—and he balances pragmatic architecture with hands-on implementation. Notably, he taught software craftsmanship early in his career, emphasizing readability and maintainability as long-term engineering investments.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, GPA: 3.945, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, GPA: 3.945 at Case Western Reserve UniversityThomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
French
Github Skills (51)
database-migrations10
sqlite10
cassandra10
mysql10
mariadb10
databases10
migration10
spanner10
google-cloud-storage10
google-cloud-spanner10
neo4j10
latex10
bearer-token10
sql10
resume10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
frankhucek/Pathfinder
Feb 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:223 commits, 3 PRs, 138 pushes in 2 months
seniorsenior-project
bclarkx2/gnome-settings
Mar 2020 - Oct 2024
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
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