Brian Coates is a Director of Engineering with 11 years of experience leading frontend-focused teams and maintaining production systems built in Ruby on Rails, React, and vanilla JavaScript. Based in Tulsa, he blends hands-on development with architecture patterns like microservices, event sourcing, the observer pattern, and functional programming to deliver resilient, typed JavaScript and Ruby codebases. At Life.Church he progressed from software engineer to technical leader and now directs engineering, including running an Engineering Leadership Program. He brings a pragmatic security-minded background from early roles in IT and medical informatics and a technical degree in Network Security, which informs his emphasis on reliable, auditable systems.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Free Code Camp
Technical Degree, Network Security and Information, 4.0, Technical Degree, Network Security and Information, 4.0 at Central Technology Center
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Brian Coates - Director Of Engineering at Life.Church