Brian Goad
Sr. Staff Software Engineer at Genesys
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Goad is a senior staff software engineer and seasoned engineering leader with 11 years of hands-on experience building full-stack, cloud and virtual infrastructure solutions from Durham, NC. He has progressed from systems and backup administration and QA engineering into leadership roles at Genesys, where he now blends technical direction with customer-success engineering and large-scale delivery. Brian’s background includes founding and operating hosting and personal website businesses, giving him practical ops experience and a strong sense for reliability and automation. He’s driven quality-first practices across teams at TiVo and ReverbNation, often pairing test automation, CI and release management with developer workflows. Comfortable shifting between code, infrastructure, and people management, he’s known for turning complex operational pain points into repeatable processes. Outside corporate roles he maintains long-term projects and tooling experience that underscore an entrepreneurial, hands-on approach to problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Information Systems Communications, B.S. Computer Information Systems Communications at Milligan College
Github Skills (200)
api-platform10
python10
api-client10
testing10
websocket10
sfdx10
http-client10
automation10
highlighter10
command-line-tool10
rest-api10
user-input10
printing10
javascript10
jsonpath10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
bbbco/jq
Oct 2018 - Oct 2023
Command-line JSON processor
Contributions:5 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years
command-line-toolcommandline-toolcommand-line-interfacejqcommand-line
bbbco/terraform-provider-genesyscloud
Mar 2023 - Mar 2025
Terraform Provider for Genesys Cloud resources
Contributions:190 pushes, 88 branches in 2 years
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