Brian Kohlwaies
Senior Software Engineer at Curology
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Kohlwaies is a Senior Software Engineer based in Seattle with two decades of experience designing and operating large-scale distributed backends, APIs, and cloud infrastructure, and 13 years in hands-on professional roles. He specializes in reliability, performance optimizations, and modernizing legacy systems into scalable cloud-native architectures, having led migrations to AWS Aurora, containerization efforts, and cross-account infrastructure handoffs. His recent work spans healthcare and e-commerce domains—building prescription and subscription automation at hims & hers and cost-saving, resiliency-focused platform improvements at Zulily—demonstrating a pragmatic balance of clean design and fast delivery. A full-stack engineer with a backend emphasis, he also drives operational improvements (runbooks, CI/CD, automated DB migrations) that reduce on-call load and manual effort. Notably, he pairs deep integration work (carrier APIs, EMR-linked order tracking) with a calm mentoring presence that helps teams adopt SOLID practices and sustainable processes.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc Computer Science, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc Computer Science at University of Washington Bothell
Github Skills (4)
docker-desktop6
desktop3
docker3
windows2
Github contributions (4)
gobotsoup/Udacity-AI-For-Robitics
May 2013 - Oct 2013
Contributions:10 commits in 4 months
gobotsoup/leetcode
Aug 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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