Brian Tenggren
Team Lead at Salsify
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Tenggren is a team lead and hands-on software engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable Ruby and Rails applications from prototype to production. Based in Boston, he thrives in collaborative, mentorship-driven environments and emphasizes TDD, pair programming, and sustainable product design. At thoughtbot he progressed from developer to team lead, guiding teams while keeping a developer-first focus on clean APIs, versioning, and integrations. Prior experience at Salsify includes architecting customer-facing integrations and synchronization services across platforms like Shopify and Webdam. He blends an economics background with practical engineering rigor, making trade-offs that balance business needs and long-term maintainability. Outside of code, his early love of building—starting with Legos—fuels a pragmatic curiosity for new technologies and team dynamics.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Graduated; High School Diploma, Graduated; High School Diploma at East Longmeadow High SchoolRuby on Rails Development, Ruby on Rails Development at General AssemblyBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Economics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Economics at University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Github Skills (200)
piping10
testing10
authentication10
ruby10
seeding10
rails-authentication10
factories10
thoughtbot10
clearance10
elixir10
rails10
exunit10
rails-app10
adapter10
bourbon10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
brimatteng/winston
Feb 2016 - Sep 2021
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch, 13 comments in 5 years 8 months
brimatteng/Learn-Elixir--Train-Board
Jan 2018 - Apr 2022
Contributions:5 pushes, 3 branches, 2 issues in 4 years 4 months
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