Summary
Brian Schwalm is a Principal Engineer and Architect with over 20 years of experience building enterprise-grade web and mobile systems, primarily for startups and early- to mid-stage companies in financial services and healthcare. He combines hands-on full-stack development with strategic technical leadership—rescuing failed products, designing scalable architectures (ESBs, rules engines, payments and ERP systems), and growing engineering teams and culture. Notable achievements include a 10x web performance and 20x data access improvement for a payments gateway, delivering rapid turnarounds on failed projects, and contributing to the open-source Celo web wallet. Based in Boulder, Colorado, he prefers mission-driven work that improves lives and brings a measured, lessons-focused leadership style shaped by years as a founder, fractional CTO, and consultant.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
MS (ABT) Computer Information Systems, MS (ABT) Computer Information Systems at Regis University
BA Economics, BA Economics at University of Colorado Boulder