Summary
Brian Holdman is a seasoned technology leader and full-stack software engineer with 25+ years of hands-on experience and over a decade in senior engineering roles, now serving as CTO at Codefi. He has a strong track record designing and operating web and desktop systems, building APIs, and integrating complex third-party services like Stripe and Salesforce to enable revenue-driving features. Skilled across Ruby on Rails, ASP/.NET, Postgres, MySQL and front-end technologies, he blends deep database and network administration expertise with product-focused engineering. Brian led the launch and ongoing evolution of an on-demand platform as Principal Engineer at carGO Technologies, creating the admin and customer-facing systems that powered operations. He also co-founded a community-driven startup space, demonstrating an entrepreneurial bent and talent for building teams and ecosystems, and spent years shaping web strategy for higher education at Southeast Missouri State University. Based in Missouri, he pairs legacy systems know-how with pragmatic modern-stack practice to keep products reliable, maintainable, and integratable.
12 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science - Scientific, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science - Scientific at Southeast Missouri State University