Brian Dorsey
Research, Prototyping And Studies at ...
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Dorsey is a pragmatic software engineer with 16 years of experience specializing in databases, glue code, and rapidly fixing broken systems across Windows, macOS, and Linux. He spent over a decade at Google advancing developer relations for Google Cloud—focusing on Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, and containers—before moving into research and prototyping work building Rust-based server and embedded audio recording systems. Comfortable from low-level embedded code to cloud infrastructure, he combines Python and SQL expertise with hands-on systems troubleshooting and key-value store design. He has taught Python professionally, consulted on SQL Server and Python, and co-founded a small lab, reflecting a blend of engineering, teaching, and entrepreneurial experience. Based in Seattle, he publishes personal projects on Codeberg, signaling a preference for pragmatic, self-hosted tooling and long-term craftsmanship. An offbeat strength is his knack for rescuing failing systems quickly—turning triage into sustainable fixes rather than temporary patches.
16 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
(incomplete) Masters of Science Information Management, (incomplete) Masters of Science Information Management at University of WashingtonBA Software & Teaching, BA Software & Teaching at The Evergreen State College
Japanese, English
Stackoverflow
4,638reputation
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Github Skills (111)
google-cloud-platform10
python10
gcp10
vim10
scheduling10
automl10
google-cloud10
cloud-platform10
appengine10
auth10
google-workspace10
javascript10
google-cloud-run10
api10
golang10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
briandorsey/partisci
Jan 2012 - Aug 2013
Contributions:159 commits in 1 year 6 months
briandorsey/til.cafe
Jan 2023 - Mar 2025
Source for https://til.cafe
Contributions:2 PRs, 23 pushes, 2 issues in 2 years 1 month
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