Summary
Brian Meeker is a pragmatic engineering manager and hands-on software leader with 15 years of experience building and stabilizing production systems across startups, agencies, and nonprofit projects. Currently leading engineering at GetThru after promoting through a senior engineering role, he pairs team coaching and delivery focus with deep comfort in taking on the messy work of legacy codebases and technical debt. He founded Boredom Driven Development to explore indie projects and support local nonprofits, reflecting an entrepreneurial itch alongside steady corporate experience. His technical background spans .NET, Elixir, Ruby, Python, and full-stack web work, with notable delivery of election and healthcare systems as well as IoT and media integrations. Based in Richmond, Indiana, he balances leadership with continued coding and community involvement—organizing meetups and maintaining open-source contributions—while also being a dad who brings a pragmatic, slightly nerdy passion to engineering and metal music.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at University of Rochester