Summary
Brian Hughes is a Lead Software Architect with over eight years driving database connectivity, cloud-native deployment, and test automation for HCL/Actian Informix and OneDB. He combines deep Java/JDBC expertise with NodeJS and Angular front-end skills to maintain and scale JDBC drivers, REST and MongoDB-compatible middle tiers, and Kubernetes Helm deployments. Brian is equally fluent in engineering and process: he architects test frameworks that run unchanged across on-premise, Docker, and Kubernetes environments and helps teams adopt Jira/GitHub tooling and permission models. His work has measurably sped up test suites and improved driver performance for large web servers, while also introducing pragmatic devops and CI practices. Based in Olathe, Kansas, he brings a blend of systems-level architecture and hands-on feature development that surfaces in both customer-facing APIs and internal tooling. An understated strength is translating complex deployment scenarios into simple configuration-driven tests that reduce maintenance overhead.
8 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
University of Kansas
Bachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at Emporia State University
English