Summary
Brian Glass is an experienced engineering director with 15 years leading teams that build scalable e-learning platforms, currently overseeing engineering at O'Reilly Media. He blends hands-on backend expertise in Python, microservices, Kubernetes, and PostgreSQL with a track record of driving architecture transitions and performance improvements. Previously he led Safari’s move to microservices, authored high-performance ebook ingestion and parsing subsystems, and designed RESTful APIs that powered mobile and internal services. A pragmatic engineering coach, he fosters automated testing and CI cultures while mentoring engineers through technical leadership roles. Based in Boone, NC, he pairs deep systems experience dating back to early web and scientific software with a knack for squeezing order-of-magnitude gains from existing code. Colleagues would describe him as a steady, performance-minded leader who enjoys solving infrastructure and data workflow puzzles.
16 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science/Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science/Mathematics at Andrews University
Latin, English