Summary
Brian Gisseler is a versatile software engineer with 10+ years building and maintaining scalable web applications, payment systems, and automation tools across PHP, Go, Python, and Bash. He combines hands-on development—from custom Moodle and Drupal sites to enterprise payment gateway plugins and EMV terminal SDKs—with infrastructure work including AWS EC2 management and Ansible/AWX deployment pipelines. Brian has a strong track record in data migrations and recoveries with minimal downtime, plus experience designing high-throughput backend systems and distributed processing tools. Comfortable both leading small teams and shipping solo as a contractor, he frequently bridges development, operations, and client-facing integration work. Based in Schaumburg, Illinois, he brings a pragmatic, security-conscious approach to legacy modernization and custom plugin development that keeps business continuity front and center.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Information Systems, BS Computer Information Systems at DeVry University