Brian Guthrie
Director Of Engineering at Justworks
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Guthrie is a seasoned engineering leader with nearly two decades building and scaling product and platform teams across startups and consumer tech, now directing international engineering at Justworks. He’s a repeat founder and early-stage CTO who led Orgspace to a $2.5M raise, blending product-first serverless architectures with event-sourced data models. His background ranges from hands-on Ruby back-end contributions (notably to CruiseControl.rb and octokit.rb) to steering monorepo and continuous delivery transformations at Meetup and Slice. Comfortable oscillating between code and strategy, he has repeatedly rebuilt systems “in flight” while improving developer experience, performance, and security posture. Based in New York, he pairs an eclectic BA in Computer Science and History with a pragmatic, people-first approach to scaling global engineering organizations.
19 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Computer Science, History, BA, Computer Science, History at Northeastern University
English, German
Github Skills (8)
octokit10
rails10
github-api10
github10
ruby-on-rails10
ruby10
version-control7
git7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
thoughtworks/cruisecontrol.rb
May 2009 - Jan 2012
CruiseControl for Ruby. Keep it simple.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:143 commits in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the Ruby on Rails-based CruiseControl.rb project. Their work focused on improving core functionalities, including fixing the build process by explicitly requiring configurations and cleaning up environment files. Furthermore, the user was involved in refactoring routes and addressing test-related issues, such as the removal of failing functional tests.
cruisecontrolruby
octokit/octokit.rb
Jan 2012 - Jan 2012
Ruby toolkit for the GitHub API
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Brian primarily focused on updating the project's interaction with the GitHub API. They upgraded the followers API to v3 and switched other user API calls to v3 as well. Furthermore, the user implemented an auto-pagination feature to traverse paginated API responses. Additionally, the user performed minor code adjustments, like removing redundant checks.
rubysdkoctokit-rb
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