Brian McIlwain
Software Engineer
Oregon, United States
Summary
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SeniorBrian Mcilwain is a founder and engineering leader with 11 years of experience building and scaling teams, products, and engineering cultures from startup MVPs to SOC-2 readiness. He has a track record of turning underperforming groups into high-retention, high-delivery teams—scaling teams from 2 to 12 engineers in months and developing juniors into senior-impact contributors within a year. Technically fluent across full-stack and serverless architectures, Brian pairs hands-on delivery (MVPs, testing, containerization, migrations) with human-centered systems like Career Development Journals and a Self‑Debugging methodology that uncovers behavioral patterns costing founders revenue and cohesion. He founded BrianBug to teach those patterns to founders and runs programs that translate managerial insight into delegation and team autonomy. Based in Fayetteville, Arkansas, he blends operational discipline with content-driven personal branding and a focus on engineering leadership tools rather than just code.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (194)
postgresql10
windows10
azure-functions10
vim10
lua10
browserify10
serverless10
javascript10
api10
lambda10
cloud-services10
database10
sqlite10
mysql10
purgecss10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
thebrianbug/turbo-wunder-svelte
Oct 2022 - Nov 2022
Boilerplate with Turborepo, Wundergraph, SvelteKit, and more
Contributions:80 commits, 6 PRs, 57 pushes in 1 month
sveltekitturborepo
bmcilw1/macro-notes
Feb 2021 - Jan 2022
Contributions:361 pushes, 15 branches in 10 months
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