Brian Saltz
Staff Software Engineer at Descript
Toledo, Ohio Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolBrian Saltz is a Staff Software Engineer with eight years of experience building developer-focused platforms and customer-facing products that scale. He combines full-stack chops—Spring Boot and Kotlin backends, React/TypeScript frontends, Kubernetes and ArgoCD—with a track record of shipping embedded analytics, metadata-driven configuration UIs, federated GraphQL across 15 microservices, and data ingestion systems processing 5M+ files weekly. At Crisp he led platform and DevEx efforts through rapid acquisition-driven growth, modernized CI/CD to triple deployment frequency and cut lead times by up to 90%, and maintained SOC 2/ISO controls during integrations. He treats engineers as customers, driving measurable outcomes like reducing new-hire ramp to 1–2 weeks and slashing BigQuery spend 50% via architectural improvements. Now based in Toledo, he’s targeting Staff+ roles in platform, developer experience, or full-stack product engineering, preferring projects where metadata-driven UX and long-lived, production-grade systems matter.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science and Engineering, BS Computer Science and Engineering at The University of Toledo
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Github Skills (36)
pomxml10
java10
infrastructure10
dx10
eclipse10
microservices10
annotations9
reflection9
multithreading9
terminology9
mkdir9
backstage9
lambda9
swing9
service-catalog9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
bsaltz/greex
Dec 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:1 release, 12 commits, 14 PRs in 4 months
unit-testingregextestingunitjava
bsaltz/advent-of-code
Dec 2023 - Dec 2023
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 14 days
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