Brian Gilkey
Software Engineering Manager at Credit Acceptance
California, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Gilkey is a seasoned software engineering manager with 8+ years of formal engineering experience and a long history of leading distributed teams to deliver cloud-native, high-performance SaaS products. He has repeatedly driven tech modernization and migrations—from monoliths to microservices on Azure and AWS—cutting latency and increasing system efficiency while aligning engineering work to business outcomes. Known for halving production timelines and reducing customer time-to-insight from days to minutes, he blends hands-on technical leadership in Node.js, Go, Python, Kafka, and Kubernetes with strategic program execution. Brian builds inclusive, resilient teams through regular 1:1s, tailored development plans, and structured onboarding that have promoted multiple engineers into leadership. He also brings client-facing product sense from prior roles translating requirements into real-time data features for government and commercial customers. Based in California, he thrives in remote-first environments where he champions OKRs, Agile practices, and measurable impact.
8 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, IrvineBusiness Administration and Management, General, Business Administration and Management, General at Santiago Canyon College
English, German, Spanish, Persian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (7)
redux8
sdk8
react7
monorepo6
javascript6
jquery6
typescript4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (1)
veritone/veritone-sdk
Mar 2018 - Jan 2019
Monorepo for Veritone's open source developer packages
Contributions:19 commits, 5 PRs, 13 pushes in 10 months
monoreporeactsdkreduxveritone
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