Brian Muller
Co-Founder And CTO at Brillian
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Muller is a technologist, founder, and operator with 19 years building product-driven engineering and data/AI teams, currently co-founder and CTO of Brillian where he is bringing Fortune 500-grade AI tools to small and mid-sized businesses. He led engineering and product at Parallel Markets through an acquisition by iCapital, launching the Parallel Passport for portable investor identity across web2 and web3, and has held senior data leadership roles at The Atlantic and Vox Media. Equally hands-on, Brian contributes to notable open-source Python async projects like aiohttp and a Kademlia DHT implementation, improving standards compliance, routing, and robustness. He advises and invests in seed-stage founders focused on family- and consumer-facing problems, combining product instincts with deep data science and infrastructure experience. Based in New York, he blends startup grit with institutional delivery—plus a quirk: his name is pronounced differently than you might expect.
19 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at College of CharlestonMS Bioinformatics, MS Bioinformatics at Medical University of South Carolina
Github Skills (12)
asynchronous10
testing10
http10
http-client10
http-server10
python10
async10
asyncio10
aiohttp10
data-structures8
data-structure8
networking8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
bmuller/kademlia
Jan 2014 - Apr 2021
A DHT in Python using asyncio
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 79 commits, 39 PRs in 7 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Brian's contributions centered around improving the Kademlia DHT implementation in Python. They fixed the bootstrap process and made core changes to the routing logic. The user also worked on various parts of the network code. Moreover, the user has written tests for the project, ensuring stability and functionality.
pythondhtasynciopython3distributed
aio-libs/aiohttp
Sep 2016 - Jan 2017
Asynchronous HTTP client/server framework for asyncio and Python
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 5 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Brian contributed to the `aiohttp` repository by implementing improvements and addressing bugs related to HTTP client/server functionality. Their work involved modifying client request handling, specifically by conforming to RFC3986 regarding URL fragments and handling text encoding errors. They also added tests, updated documentation, and refactored code within the core of the asynchronous HTTP client library. These changes enhance the library's compliance with standards and error handling capabilities.
pythonasynchronousasynciohttp-clientclient-server
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