Summary
Brian Norlander is a Software Engineer II based in London with nine years' experience building distributed backend systems and ML-enabled services, currently contributing to Amazon's engineering efforts. He has a strong track record designing event-driven, microservice architectures—at Rakuten he led Kafka-based data pipelines and APIs that halved hotel search latency for Japan's largest inventory. Comfortable across Java, Kotlin, Spring Boot, MongoDB, Elasticsearch and SQL, he blends pragmatic engineering with performance-driven design. His background includes product-focused roles at Picnic Technologies and international study in Hong Kong, reflecting adaptability to fast-moving, global teams. Notably, he combines production-grade backend engineering with an eye for data synchronization and denormalization patterns that scale search and discovery.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
English, Japanese