Brian Telnes
Founder, Engineering at Early-stage startup
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Telnes is a seasoned software engineer and founder with nine years of experience delivering large-scale eLearning and certification platforms, and two decades of prior engineering work at Microsoft. He led architecture and feature work for Microsoft Learn, driving multi-million dollar cost savings, improving content authoring efficiency, and increasing user completion and certification rates across tens of millions of monthly users. Equally comfortable in product and platform roles, he has migrated and hardened LMS solutions (including Open edX on Azure), improved security posture via threat modeling and SDL, and rebuilt critical systems to scale usage from millions to multi-millions. A pragmatic hands-on leader, he has a track record of rescuing off-schedule projects, mentoring teams, and shipping high-quality, user-focused features under tight deadlines. Based in Redmond, he blends full-stack technical depth with product-minded execution and an entrepreneurial impulse evident in his current early-stage startup role. An interesting through-line in his career is repeatedly turning costly third-party dependencies into maintainable in-house platforms that both save money and enable future innovation.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Economics, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Economics at University of WashingtonBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Seattle Pacific University
Github Skills (17)
docker10
azure10
openedx9
lms9
python9
ansible9
go9
azure-media-services9
dotnet8
dotnet-core8
css8
csharp8
fsharp7
azure-devops5
syntax-highlighter5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/edx-configuration
Dec 2016 - Jan 2019
a simple, but flexible, way for anyone to stand up an instance of the edX platform that is fully configured and ready-to-go
Contributions:132 commits, 140 PRs, 203 pushes in 2 years 2 months
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microsoft/edx-theme
Mar 2017 - Jan 2019
Contributions:168 commits, 26 PRs, 168 pushes in 1 year 10 months
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