Brian Holley
Engineering Lead at Stripe
Kirkland, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Holley is an engineering leader with 11+ years of experience who currently leads teams at Stripe after directing multi-team engineering efforts at Convoy and over a decade of platform and product work at Microsoft. He combines hands-on full-stack expertise—from mobile clients and SDKs to distributed systems and data synchronization—with manager-of-managers experience in hiring, coaching, and empowering independent teams. Brian prioritizes customer-focused, outcome-driven engineering, avoiding rigid role boundaries so engineers can tackle the highest-impact problems. His background includes running cross-cutting domains like fintech, scheduling, and operations tooling and representing Convoy in industry-standardization efforts for freight APIs, showing a knack for both technical execution and ecosystem-level influence. Based in Kirkland, WA, he builds teams that value collaboration and focus over process for predictable, scalable delivery.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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Github Skills (32)
octoprint9
azure-webapp9
docker9
azure8
mastodon8
activitypub8
azure-app-service8
pixelfed7
microblogging7
federation7
3d-printer7
python7
generics6
raspberry-pi6
pointer6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
brianholley/firefly
May 2016 - Jul 2021
Contributions:1 push, 2 branches in 5 years 2 months
brianholley/sudoku-solver
Aug 2015 - Jul 2021
Learning and proving ground for languages building a working sudoku puzzle solver
Contributions:14 PRs, 16 pushes, 18 branches in 5 years 11 months
gamepuzzle-solversolversudokupuzzle
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