Summary
Brian Gonzales is a creative operations leader and founder with over two decades of experience translating multidisciplinary art and design into profitable digital products and brands. As Director of Operations at Solver Collective and Pairodime he has overseen end-to-end agency functions—business development, project delivery, and team management—serving 150+ clients across commerce, media, and outdoor brands. He co-founded Rap Grid, where he helped pivot a niche video aggregation site into a live pay-per-view and VOD production platform with custom Drupal engineering and interactive live-event features. A lifelong maker who started programming on a TI-99 and Apple II in the 1980s, Brian blends hands-on technical chops with aesthetic sensibility to craft distinctive web and product experiences. Based in Portland, he thrives on remote-first collaboration and building collectives that scale creative impact. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic, inventive, and unusually comfortable bridging analog art practices with modern digital systems.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Visual Arts, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Visual Arts at Seattle University
Spanish