Brian Mearns
Secretary at Sugar and Spice Books, Inc.
City of Albany, New York, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Mearns is a seasoned software engineer with 12 years of experience building full-stack and embedded systems, from C firmware for DSPs and microcontrollers to Node.js/React isomorphic web applications. He has led teams and mentored engineers as a technical lead at CommerceHub and scaled critical systems at PagerDuty, combining hands-on coding with architecture and CI/CD design. An active open-source contributor, Brian made notable contributions to mermaid-js, improving flowchart rendering and hardening security in git graph diagrams. His background includes defensive patents from embedded work and a master's in computer engineering, reflecting a strong foundation in real-time and low-level systems. Based in Albany, NY, he now balances technical chops with broader organizational roles, currently serving as Secretary at Sugar and Spice Books while continuing engineering work.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering at Northeastern UniversityMaster of Science (M.S.) Computer Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Engineering at Boston University
English
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Github Skills (26)
javascript10
jes10
typescript10
diagram10
jestjs10
flowchart10
typescript-types10
jtest10
typescripts10
uml9
web-application9
back-end-development9
parsing9
front-end-development9
php9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
mermaid-js/mermaid
Oct 2019 - Oct 2019
Generation of diagrams like flowcharts or sequence diagrams from text in a similar manner as markdown
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 2 PRs, 10 comments in 4 days
Contributions summary:Brian significantly contributed to the flowchart diagrams functionality within the mermaid-js project. Their work included implementing and refining the hexagon shape, along with associated unit tests, parser modifications, and integration examples. Furthermore, the user addressed a security vulnerability in the git graph diagram implementation by integrating a cryptographically secure random number generator and also added test coverage. They demonstrated proficiency in both front-end (rendering) and backend (parsing and diagram logic) aspects of the library.
markdownsequence-diagramflowchartjavascripttypescript
mearns/props-model
Dec 2018 - Apr 2021
A javascript package providing a model for properties including change events and derived properties
Contributions:3 PRs, 32 pushes, 13 tags in 2 years 4 months
eventsjavascriptderivedjavascript-packageproperties
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