Brian Voelker
Lead Software Engineer at Freelance
Nolensville, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Voelker is a Lead Software Engineer with 13 years of professional experience and over 15 years building web applications ranging from static sites to large-scale event management systems. Based in Nolensville, TN, he leads backend and frontend work at Fluid Pay using Go, JavaScript, Vue, and robust data stores, bringing deep payments domain experience. He’s a pragmatic full-stack developer who has modernized teams and architectures across startups and agencies, shipping advanced single-page apps and resilient backends. An active open-source contributor, Brian has enhanced the popular gofakeit library with new generators, docs, and benchmarks—bringing test data reliability to Go projects. Outside software he tinkers with advanced 3D printing, reflecting a hands-on, detail-oriented problem-solving style.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Animation, BA, Animation at Collins College
Github Skills (7)
data-generation10
go10
testing10
strings9
text-manipulation9
documentation8
regular-expression7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
brianvoe/gofakeit
Apr 2015 - Dec 2022
Random fake data generator written in go
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 28 reviews, 441 commits in 7 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily contributed to the gofakeit library by adding new features and expanding existing functionality. They added new functions for generating data, including random numbers, strings, and various types of data, improving the library's usefulness for generating diverse test data. The contributions also included improvements to the documentation, examples, and benchmark tests, ensuring a higher level of understanding and usability of the library's features. They also refactored and renamed some functions for improved readability and maintainability.
golangfake-data-generatordatarandom-generationseed
brianvoe/slim-select
Mar 2017 - Jan 2023
Slim advanced select dropdown
Contributions:4 releases, 16 reviews, 598 commits in 5 years 11 months
select-dropdownmultiselectjavascripttooltipsui-component
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