Brian Zwahr
Senior Software Engineer at BambooHR
College Station, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Zwahr is a senior software engineer with 11 years of professional experience building and maintaining web applications across PHP, Java, and modern JavaScript stacks, currently driving engineering work at BambooHR from College Station, Texas. He has a strong background in OOD/OOP and TDD, shaped by roles at Chess.com—where he led integrations like Twitch and social logins and helped establish security and bug-triage practices—and earlier work on high‑traffic Java and LAMP systems. An active front-end contributor to notable open-source projects like DuckDuckGo Instant Answers, he implemented a Dota2 Instant Answer that integrated external APIs and responsive Handlebars templates. Comfortable working with legacy code and bringing it under test, Brian pairs practical refactoring skills with a passion for continuous learning. Outside of engineering he brings an unexpected performance mindset as a professional wrestler and referee, which he channels into teamwork and resilient problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
General Studies, General Studies at Blinn CollegeUniversity of Houston-Clear LakeBachelor of Science (B.S.), Information Technology, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Information Technology at University of PhoenixComputer Science, Computer Science at Houston Community College
Github Skills (10)
javascript10
front-end-development10
handlebars10
json-api9
css9
duckduckgo8
responsive-design8
instantsearch7
jquery7
perl3
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-spice
Dec 2015 - Apr 2016
DuckDuckGo Instant Answers based on JavaScript (JSON) APIs
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 37 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Brian's primary contribution involved implementing Instant Answers for Dota2 within the DuckDuckGo search engine. They added JavaScript code to handle Dota2 hero and item data, fetching and displaying relevant information. The user also created and modified Handlebars templates to present hero and item details with responsive design elements, incorporating images and structured data. This work integrated data from external Dota2 APIs, providing users with in-depth game information.
apijsjavascriptduckduckgoinstant-answers
echosa/emacs.d
Aug 2015 - Jun 2019
Contributions:62 commits, 1 PR, 32 pushes in 3 years 10 months
dotfilesemacs
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