Brian Wilens
Senior Engineer at Rocket Science Group
Town of Mamaroneck, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Wilens is a senior engineer and architect with 11 years of experience building and scaling distributed platforms, currently leading engineering work at Rocket Science Group. He has a strong track record in government and healthcare systems—architecting DMV digital intake services and a medical ML data ingestion pipeline—where his backend optimizations drove measurable performance gains. Comfortable in technical leadership and hiring, he combines hands-on coding with system design and interviewing to grow teams and products. His roots in research (drone optical comms and QKD) and co-founding a large university open-source org reveal a blend of rigorous engineering and community building. Passionate about open source, emerging ML tech, and games, he seeks roles that turn complex systems into user-facing benefits. Based in Mamaroneck, NY, he brings a practical, transparency-driven leadership style that favors intentional culture and measurable impact.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Engineering Physics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Engineering Physics at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (27)
office3658
powerbi6
linux6
api-template5
backend5
version-control5
onedrive5
spfx5
microsoft4
api3
spring3
spring-boot3
git3
policies3
testing2
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
open-source-at-illinois/git-workshop
Sep 2019 - Sep 2019
Interactive repository for learning git
Contributions:18 PRs, 22 pushes, 2 branches in 7 days
version-controllearning-git
wertydoo/andro
Jan 2021 - Apr 2021
Contributions:12 pushes, 2 branches, 3 comments in 2 months
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