Brian Watson
Senior Software Engineer at Loop
New York, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Watson is a senior software engineer and technical leader based in New York with 14 years of hands-on development experience and over a decade guiding cross-functional teams to deliver reliable, scalable applications. He has progressed from systems integration at Lockheed Martin to leading product and incubator engineering teams at Liquid Web and now contributes at Loop, blending deep technical craft with strategic product delivery. Comfortable across web, systems, and architecture roles, he has a track record of moving teams from prototype to production while fostering reusable platforms and operational reliability. His background combines formal computer science training (BS and MS) with practical agency and freelance experience, which gives him a pragmatic, client-focused approach to engineering tradeoffs. Notably, he has moved between hands-on engineering and director-level leadership multiple times, demonstrating both coding fluency and the ability to scale teams and processes.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Masters of Science, Computer Science, Masters of Science, Computer Science at The George Washington UniversityBachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Millersville University of Pennsylvania
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Github Skills (109)
patchwork10
wordpress10
wordpress-plugin10
elasticpress9
checkout9
disable9
wordpress-api9
woocommerce9
monkey-patching9
ecommerce9
plugin9
wp-api8
git-hooks8
order-management7
phpunit7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
moderntribe/wme-sitebuilder
Oct 2022 - Mar 2023
Contributions:16 releases, 19 reviews, 18 PRs in 5 months
bswatson/Engineering-Best-Practices
Apr 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:3 pushes, 6 branches in 10 months
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