Summary
Brian Guan is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of industry experience and a long track record of technical leadership at companies like LinkedIn and Facebook, where he led revenue and mobile payment efforts. He combines deep architecture and performance tuning expertise—from scaling search engines to building production revenue systems—with hands-on coding in Java, Groovy, and web stacks. After a deliberate multi-year sabbatical spent teaching Taichi, learning 3D printing, and pursuing creative projects, he returned to engineering motivated by curiosity rather than purely commercial goals. Based in Palo Alto, he blends product-minded pragmatism with a maker’s curiosity, evidenced by rapid prototyping and public 3D-print music projects. Colleagues know him for mentoring teams, shipping resilient systems, and balancing engineering rigor with a playful, lifelong appetite for learning.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Computer Science, Bachelor Computer Science at Imperial College London
English, Chinese