Brian Hough
Web2 & Web3 Software Engineer Founder at Tech Stack Playbook
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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RockstarBrian Hough is a Web2 and Web3 software engineer and founder with 11 years of experience building full‑stack, cloud-native and blockchain applications from prototype to production. As Co‑Founder & CEO of Trackside and founder of Tech Stack Playbook, he blends product storytelling (10k+ followers across channels) with hands‑on engineering in TypeScript, React/Next.js, Node, AWS and Solidity. He has shipped token‑gated learning platforms, led a pandemic‑era open source project scaled to 280+ contributors, and won ETHGlobal’s SKALE Denali 1st Place Prize for a decentralized work marketplace. An active front‑end contributor to styled-components’ polished library, he focuses on practical UX and styling improvements that make developer tooling more delightful. He’s equally comfortable advising C‑suite strategy and rolling up his sleeves to implement serverless architectures, smart contracts, and developer relations initiatives.
11 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (6)
css-in-js10
styles10
javascript10
front-end-development10
stylesheets10
react4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
styled-components/polished
Nov 2016 - Jul 2022
A lightweight toolset for writing styles in JavaScript ✨
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:59 releases, 17 reviews, 410 commits in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily contributed to styling-related tasks within the `polished` repository, a toolset for writing styles in JavaScript. Their commits focused on adding and modifying mixins for styling purposes, such as creating the `triangle` and `borderColor` mixins. They also updated documentation and test cases, demonstrating a focus on improving and maintaining the usability of the styling library.
cssjavascriptcss-in-jsbabel-pluginstyled-components
bhough/fibre
Mar 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:12 releases, 4 PRs, 65 pushes in 4 months
scaffoldingweb-projectworkflow
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