Brian Crites is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building resilient backend systems and shipping product-focused engineering at startups and scale-ups. Based in Los Angeles, he currently advances Archive’s backend platform after rising through multiple engineering levels, and previously led backend efforts at PiñataFarms where his work moved products from TestFlight demos to recognizable brand presence. He pairs deep academic training (MS and PhD work in computer science) and a history of practical internships at Google and Intel with hands-on system design in Go, Scala, and Python. An experienced instructor and study-abroad web-dev teacher, he regularly translates complex distributed-systems concepts into teachable, production-ready solutions. Notably, his Google internship work contributed to CloudProber, reflecting an appetite for durable, open tooling that bridges observability and operations.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of California, Riverside
Contributions:47 commits, 31 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 3 months
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Brian Crites - Senior Software Engineer II at Archive