Brian Horakh
Founder at PromptExecution
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolBrian Horakh is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 13 years of experience building AI/ML-driven cognitive systems, full-stack platforms, and cloud-native infrastructure from Melbourne. He blends hands-on development (Python, Rust, event-driven ML, DevOps, AWS) with entrepreneurial product thinking, having founded multiple ventures including PromptExecution and Elastic.Ventures and led engineering at energy market optimizer Habitat Energy. His background spans e-commerce platform architecture, Web3 validator systems for decentralized governance and ambitious hardware-adjacent projects (graphene, myco-leathers, energy-intensive manufacturing), reflecting a rare mix of software, systems, and physical-world R&D. Comfortable operating across time zones and late-night cross-border teams, he’s equally at home debugging IPsec VPNs for grid-connected assets or prototyping sci-fi-style cybernetic systems. A lifelong tinkerer and serial entrepreneur, he combines pragmatic engineering with speculative, high-impact research ambitions.
13 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
28 courses, 28 courses at Udemy AlumniAssociates Computer Science, Associates Computer Science at Palomar CollegeSAFE Startup School, SAFE Startup School at Y-Combinator
Spanish, German, Italian, German, Chinese
Stackoverflow
485reputation
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24answers
9questions
Github Skills (25)
uwsgi10
single-page9
backend7
pip6
scikit-learn6
amazon-cloudwatch6
docker6
amazon-web-services6
python6
terraform6
amazon-ecs6
css5
javascript4
selenium-webdriver4
mechanize4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
CommerceRack/backend
Feb 2014 - Sep 2015
Contributions:431 commits, 48 pushes, 1 issue in 1 year 7 months
backendbackend-server
MyAllocator/apidocs
Sep 2014 - Aug 2017
Contributions:166 commits, 58 pushes in 2 years 11 months
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