Brian Neisler
EVP, AI Platform Services
Leesburg, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Neisler is an experienced software leader and entrepreneur with 13 years of building scalable, product-focused engineering organizations and hands-on systems—from low-latency machine guidance and real-time mobile apps to serverless cloud infrastructure. Currently EVP, AI Platform Services at PennyMac, he is driving how AI reshapes software development while blending architecture, product strategy, and engineering execution. He has a startup pedigree including founding companies and senior roles at Serverless Inc., where he contributed to the popular Serverless Framework’s tooling and infrastructure, and has repeatedly led teams through rapid prototyping to production hardening. Known for a passion for puzzles and continuous learning, he brings a pragmatic, people-first leadership style that accelerates teams and shipping cadence. Unusually, his background spans both embedded, high-frequency systems and modern serverless/DevOps ecosystems, giving him a rare cross-domain perspective.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Virginia Tech
English, Chinese, Spanish
Stackoverflow
873reputation
54kreached
14answers
2questions
google-cloud-firestore
top-5%
Github Skills (19)
javascript10
aws10
serverless10
nodejs10
filesystem9
file-operations9
google-cloud-firestore9
yaml9
fileio9
devops7
testing7
cicd7
lodash6
firebase6
immutability6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
serverless/serverless
Mar 2017 - Nov 2018
⚡ Serverless Framework – Effortlessly build apps that auto-scale, incur zero costs when idle, and require minimal maintenance using AWS Lambda and other managed cloud services.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 36 commits, 20 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily contributed to the Serverless Framework's internal tooling and infrastructure. They made significant changes to the build and plugin management systems, including refactoring file paths and updating autocomplete functionality. The user also introduced new utilities for file operations and added platform-specific functionality, enhancing the framework's capabilities and integration with the platform. Furthermore, they improved the framework's test suite.
aws-lambdacloud-serviceslambdaserverless-frameworkserverless
brianneisler/duxtape
Sep 2016 - Mar 2017
Module and utility framework for redux
Contributions:19 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
redux
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