Brian Durand
Software Architect at SwoopMe, Inc.
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Durand is a pragmatic software architect with 12+ years of experience designing and hands-on building high-scale web systems from startup to enterprise. He has led architecture and scaling efforts for consumer platforms handling millions of daily users and hundreds of thousands of requests per minute, with deep operational experience in Ruby on Rails, distributed databases, caching, search, and message queues. Brian excels at translating product constraints into simple, maintainable solutions and mentoring small teams to operate at large scale on limited budgets. His career spans roles from Tribune's enterprise architecture to chief architect at We Heart It and current software architect at SwoopMe, demonstrating consistent delivery of resilient backend and data-tier systems. He pairs a coder’s curiosity—regularly working in codebases to spot future problems—with strategic influence as a senior management advisor. Based in San Francisco, he blends a liberal arts BA in math, history and philosophy with decades of pragmatic engineering judgment.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Math, History, Philosophy, BA, Math, History, Philosophy at University of Wisconsin-Madison
English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (105)
slave10
mvc10
ruby10
html10
master-slave10
tarantool10
formatting10
rails10
tagging10
logger10
logging10
filemaker9
database-design9
database9
guard9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
bdurand/is_it_broken
Sep 2018 - Jul 2022
Ruby gem for defining the health status of a ruby application.
Contributions:5 PRs, 22 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years 10 months
ruby-gemtest-kitchenrailshealthstatus
bdurand/created_id
Apr 2023 - Mar 2025
Optimize ActiveRecord queries for filtering large tables on the created_at column by pre-computing id ranges.
Contributions:3 releases, 6 reviews, 12 PRs in 1 year 11 months
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