Summary
Brian Ray is a seasoned software engineer and founder with 16 years building high-availability products across iOS, Android, and web, now leading Brian Ray Software, LLC from Wilmington, DE. He specializes in scaling, performance optimization, and systems architecture, having architected geographically fault-tolerant, secure infrastructure for law and fintech products and driven a SOC 2 compliance effort. Brian designed and operated large-scale message-driven systems that processed over 1.4 billion messages, built the market’s only iMessage-capturing product, and ran fleets of 150+ Mac servers for backend automation. Earlier roles include scaling social games to millions of DAUs and improving search and background job architectures with measurable runtime wins. He combines hands-on backend development (primarily Ruby) with mentoring and operational leadership, often tackling the hardest reliability and latency bottlenecks in production systems.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer & Information Sciences, BS, Computer & Information Sciences at University of Delaware