Brian Glusman is a seasoned software engineer with 12 years of experience building and scaling production systems, currently contributing to core initiatives at PepsiCo from New York. His background spans startups to enterprise—founding a web company, leading engineering teams at StellaService/PowerReviews, and delivering long-term projects at Boeing and Shutterstock—combining hands-on development with leadership and platform scaling. He brings strong back-end and DevOps expertise, notably improving telemetry, LiveDashboard metrics, and CI/CD for an Elixir community repo used to track companies running Elixir in production. Comfortable across languages and architectures, Brian has moved between embedded/real-time systems early in his career and modern web and observability stacks more recently. Colleagues would describe him as pragmatic and system-focused, able to translate operational needs into measurable observability improvements. He holds a BA in Computer Science from Bowdoin College and a track record of shipping reliable, monitorable systems under real-world constraints.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Computer Science, BA, Computer Science at Bowdoin College
A list of companies currently using Elixir in production.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:7 commits, 8 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Brian primarily contributed to enhancing the Elixir-based application's monitoring and telemetry capabilities. Their work involved implementing custom metrics and historical data integration within the LiveDashboard, including modifications to the ViewingStats and RepoMetricsHistory modules. The user also updated dependencies and adjusted the system's architecture to support the new telemetry features. Furthermore, they contributed to Phoenix and LiveView enhancements, alongside setting up and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
Contributions:66 commits, 26 PRs, 89 pushes in 1 year 11 months
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