Summary
Brian Ludwig is a senior engineering leader with 11 years of focused experience building and scaling high-performing software teams and resilient data platforms from Detroit. He has progressed from founding engineer to Senior Director of Engineering at Rula, previously leading 30+ engineers at MD Labs and growing a team at Sift post-acquisition with a people-first, DEI-focused approach. Brian combines hands-on full‑stack and data engineering expertise—having built high-throughput ETL pipelines, HIPAA/PCI-compliant systems, and RESTful applications—with strategic architecture and ops experience. He mentors engineers across career stages, emphasizes happiness and process pragmatism, and still enjoys writing code to add technical value. His background blends deep operational knowledge (Dokku, Nginx, AWS, Docker) with formal data analytics training (MS Data Analytics), enabling him to translate business requirements into auditable, scalable systems. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic builder who balances product delivery, compliance, and team growth.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Saginaw Valley State University
Associate of Science (A.S.), Computer Programming, Associate of Science (A.S.), Computer Programming at Delta College
Master of Science - MS, Data Analytics, Master of Science - MS, Data Analytics at Western Governors University