Brian Sadler
VP Of Engineering & Architecture at Canoe
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Sadler is a seasoned engineering leader with 12+ years of experience building and scaling product and platform teams, currently serving as VP of Engineering & Architecture at Canoe in New York. He specializes in strategic decision-making that balances technical trade-offs, business goals, and human dynamics to achieve high-ROI outcomes and multiplier effects. Brian has a track record of transforming early-stage, ad-hoc systems into well-architected, observable platforms with automated testing and autoscaling, and has led teams of 50+ as Acting CTO to meet aggressive business targets. Comfortable operating across the stack—from hiring and culture to architecture and compliance—he pairs pragmatic engineering principles with a talent for motivating teams to deliver at enterprise scale. An early career foundation in Java, C++ and databases informs his disciplined approach to maintainability and testability.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science and Mathematics, Computer Science and Mathematics at Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteBachelors Computer Science and Mathematics, Bachelors Computer Science and Mathematics at Boston University
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Github Skills (67)
lcs10
alerts10
transition10
jasig10
velocity10
architecture9
automated-tests9
admin9
database8
salesforce8
wordpress8
lms8
javascript8
infrastructure8
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
beyond-z/braven_2
Nov 2017 - Mar 2020
Braven's public facing website. Rolled out Dec. 2017
Contributions:83 PRs, 106 pushes, 20 branches in 2 years 3 months
cssdectailwindcss
sadleb/kits
Nov 2016 - Feb 2020
The Wordpress code for the dynamic learning lab kits.
Contributions:30 pushes, 39 branches in 3 years 3 months
learning-labwordpresslabkits
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