Brian Sardo
Senior Software Engineer II Team Lead at Prebid.org
Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Sardo is a senior software leader and hands-on engineer with two decades of technical experience and a decade of formal leadership, currently leading teams at Microsoft and co-chairing the Prebid Server committee. He bridges embedded systems, full-stack web development, and high-performance computing, with deep expertise in Go, Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, Postgres, and Aerospike. His background includes founding a SaaS startup where he owned architecture and product, and earlier work building safety-critical embedded flight and engine software for Sikorsky and Airbus programs. At Xandr and on the open-source Prebid Server project he improved auction reliability, privacy compliance, and configuration for high-throughput advertising systems. Known for translating complex, regulated requirements into reliable production systems, he pairs managerial coaching with continued hands-on contributions to open-source infrastructure. Based in Pennsylvania, he combines startup grit and enterprise-scale discipline to deliver scalable, privacy-aware distributed services.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science & Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science & Engineering at University of ConnecticutMaster's Degree Computer Systems Engineering, Master's Degree Computer Systems Engineering at Boston University
Github Skills (10)
openrtb10
privacy10
ccpa10
go10
gdpr10
apidoc9
api9
configuration-management9
http8
testing8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
prebid/prebid-server
Jun 2020 - Jan 2023
Open-source solution for running real-time advertising auctions in the cloud.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 1663 reviews, 52 commits in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily focused on enhancing the Prebid Server codebase. They implemented features to improve error logging and recovery within the OpenRTB auction process. Additionally, the user contributed to configuration management by adding settings related to HTTP client connection limits and currency rate retrieval. They also made contributions around privacy, like adding support for multiple root schain nodes and various GDPR and CCPA related functionality, improving overall compliance.
nodejsserver-sideprebid
bsardo/prebid-server
Jun 2020 - May 2026
Server side component to offload prebid processing to the cloud
Contributions:2 PRs, 372 pushes, 157 branches in 5 years 11 months
nodejsserver-sideprebid
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