Brian Zimmer
Chief Technology Officer at Qontigo
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Zimmer is a seasoned technology executive and CTO with 24 years of experience leading engineering organizations to deliver data-driven, scalable platforms across industries from travel to agriculture and hospitality. He has built and scaled teams from small co-located groups to 200+ globally distributed engineers, driving products that integrate IoT, satellite and geospatial data, machine learning personalization, and high-throughput data pipelines. At Climate he helped architect FieldView to manage billions of acres of agricultural data and led technical strategy through two multi-billion-dollar acquisitions, while at Brightloom he focused on democratizing personalization for consumer brands. Now based in Zurich and leading technology at Qontigo, he blends hands-on engineering, platform architecture, and corporate strategy to turn complex data into actionable customer value. An active contributor to legacy open-source projects (notably work on zxJDBC-related db extensions in the Jython mirror), he pairs deep systems experience with a pragmatic focus on product outcomes and customer listening.
24 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BS Finance, BS Finance at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (7)
databases10
python10
jdbc10
data-integration10
sql-database10
dbms9
refactoring8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jython/frozen-mirror
Nov 2001 - Jul 2005
A Mirror of hg.python.org (now frozen). Please use jython/jython.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:166 commits in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Brian's commits primarily involve modifications to the `Lib/dbexts.py` file, indicating work on database extension functionalities. The initial commit introduces a checkin for zxJDBC, suggesting the user is setting up or integrating this JDBC driver. Subsequent commits demonstrate the user's contribution to adding zxJDBC documentation and extending functionality, which includes handling row IDs, and features like scrollable cursors. The user appears to have been involved in refactoring the code, and adapting features to a system that supports extensible sets.
jython
bzimmer/blexp
Oct 2020 - May 2022
Command line application to submit recurring expenses to Expensify.
Contributions:14 commits, 2 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 year 7 months
command-linecliexpensifygolang
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