Brian Walker
Advisor Founder at Hg
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Walker is a Senior Software Engineer and Technical Lead based in London with 13 years of experience building large-scale consumer products and migrating legacy systems at Google and beyond. He has led cross-organizational initiatives for YouTube and Area 120 with CEO-level visibility, managing teams, scopes, and timelines to deliver launches on aggressive nine-month schedules. Brian architected and migrated millions of users to a rebuilt FeedBurner stack that now serves thousands of QPS and hosts high-profile feeds like CNN and NPR, and he helped launch Google Podcasts Manager and multiple podcast publisher improvements. Earlier work at Tableau produced a highly optimized geographic search algorithm that cut memory use by ~80% while returning results in under 12 ms, demonstrating his focus on performant back-end systems. Comfortable across full-stack domains and product incubation, he combines hands-on implementation with product research and investor-style pitching from his Area 120 experience. Colleagues can expect a pragmatic technical leader who thrives on complex migrations, performance tuning, and shipping customer-facing services at scale.
13 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Economics, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Economics at Millikin University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (15)
collaboration9
web-application9
slack9
zulip9
socket-io9
chat9
websocket8
javascript8
nodejs8
react8
python8
apache8
react-native8
electron7
typescript7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
knowitall/kbp-MultiR
May 2013 - Jun 2013
Contributions:21 commits in 26 days
walker7734/Hogwild
Feb 2013 - Mar 2013
Contributions:7 commits in 18 days
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