Brian Gates
Senior Software Engineer at Machina Labs
Downey, California, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Gates is a Senior Software Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience building full-stack and desktop applications for media, e-commerce, and engineering organizations. He pairs pragmatic engineering with strong communication to translate business and user needs into efficient, secure tools—ranging from digital asset management systems used by Marvel and Sony to cross-platform apps integrating with Netflix ingestion APIs. His background spans JavaScript frameworks, Node/Electron, Neo4j/MongoDB, and LAMP stacks, and he has a track record of performance-focused optimizations (including an ORM memory reduction of ~85%). Brian thrives on creative, logic-driven challenges—his interests in math, riddles, music and storytelling surface in thoughtful UX and problem decomposition. Based in Downey, CA, he has progressed through senior and staff engineering roles into engineering management, consistently improving team workflows and security practices. He’s equally comfortable architecting new systems from scratch or lifting legacy platforms to be more maintainable and efficient.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Computer and Information Sciences General, Computer and Information Sciences General at Saddleback College
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Github Skills (200)
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deep-learning10
image-generation10
inpainting10
command-line-tool10
monitoring10
text-to-image10
discord-js10
pm210
neo4j10
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
codex-digital/cypher-stream
Jan 2014 - Sep 2017
Contributions:101 commits, 19 PRs, 69 pushes in 3 years 7 months
node-jsjavascriptstreamsnodejsneo4j
brian-gates/adventure-bot
Oct 2021 - Dec 2021
Slay a monster! Stab your friend! Adventure Bot!
Contributions:3 reviews, 478 commits, 52 PRs in 2 months
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