Brien Colwell
Founder at BringYour
Redwood City, California, United States
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Top SchoolBrien Colwell is a founder and seasoned engineering leader with 18 years of experience building developer-focused platforms, mobile products, and data-driven testing systems from the Bay Area. As CTO and co-founder of HeadSpin he built a global device and media testing platform that scaled to enterprise needs, and he now leads BringYour to further blend human factors, networks, and data into practical products. He combines an EECS foundation from UC Berkeley with a creative masters background in interactive media, which informs a pragmatic yet user-centered approach to design and engineering. Obsessed with continuous release and rapid iteration, he treats instrumentation and feedback as first-class product features to accelerate learning. Equally comfortable digging into mobile code or architecting cloud-edge device networks, he excels at turning customer pain points into developer tools and observable systems. Outside work he’s an avid cyclist and digital artist, a combination that surfaces in elegant, usable technical interfaces.
17 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) EECS, Bachelor of Science (BS) EECS at University of California, BerkeleyW15, W15 at Y CombinatorMasters Interactive Telecommunications (Tisch School of the Arts), Masters Interactive Telecommunications (Tisch School of the Arts) at New York UniversityTechniques and Frameworks for Data Explortaion, Techniques and Frameworks for Data Explortaion at Sphere
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Github Skills (93)
programming-language10
taxonomy10
golang10
go10
artifactory9
ruby9
interpreter9
autoit9
kotlin9
cdn9
gitflow9
data-set9
java9
square9
android9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
nextopio/nextop-client
Sep 2014 - Apr 2015
Contributions:206 commits, 121 pushes, 39 branches in 6 months
react-nativetypescriptcdnintegrations
urnetwork/build
Mar 2025 - Apr 2025
Reproducible builds
Contributions:18 releases, 2 PRs, 156 pushes in 13 days
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