Brian Hughes
Staff Consultant at Test Double
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Hughes is a senior Ruby-focused software architect and staff consultant with 11 years of experience designing and shipping back-end systems, APIs, and scalable fintech and mining products. He has led engineering teams from first hire to CTO-level responsibilities, driving an MVP that secured $1.3M in seed funding and architecting multiple blockchain-related services including an open-source SHA256 pool. Based in Las Vegas, he blends pragmatic Rails expertise with creative, polyglot tinkering (Elm, Rust, Go) and a strong emphasis on TDD, mentoring, and maintainable OOP design. A co-organizer and regular presenter for the Las Vegas Ruby Users Group, he brings both hands-on delivery and community leadership to consultancy engagements.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Economics, Computer Science, BA, Economics, Computer Science at Dartmouth College
Github Skills (13)
mining10
stratum10
asic9
bitcoin8
cryptocurrency7
rubygems5
ruby5
mqtt4
state-machine3
mqtt-protocol3
dry-rb1
docker-container1
protocol-buffers1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
brianvh/rom-explore
Jul 2016 - Feb 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 7 months
hashrabbit/dry-lifecycle
Oct 2019 - Jan 2022
A dry-rb "aware" state machine implementation
Contributions:6 PRs, 6 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 3 months
dry-rbstate-machine
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