Briggs Elsperger
Founding Engineer at HyperProto
Rapid City, South Dakota, United States
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Top SchoolBriggs Elsperger is a founding engineer and senior full-stack developer with eight years of experience building reliable, secure SaaS and mission-critical applications across healthcare, e-commerce, and DevOps. He has led teams and architecture from prototype to production—designing real-time, offline-capable systems and a bespoke WYSIWYG editor for HyperProto to deliver life‑saving EMS docs. At GoGuardian and Scratch Financial he drove large cost reductions, compliance wins (ISO/NIST/HIPAA efforts), and a ~50% boost in delivery velocity through process and tooling improvements. He mentors developers and contributes to open-source education, including meaningful full-stack work on The Odin Project curriculum and an open-source smart-TV card game built with mentees. Based in Rapid City, SD, Briggs combines hands-on engineering with client-facing support and operational ownership, often surfacing practical, security-minded solutions that aren’t obvious from product specs alone.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Web Development, Web Development at The Odin ProjectLake Area Technical College
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
fullstack-development10
rails10
full-stack10
ruby-on-rails10
ruby10
front-end-development8
git6
powerpc6
db26
php6
linux6
apache6
vee-validate6
vue-component6
javascript5
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
TheOdinProject/theodinproject
Jul 2018 - Dec 2021
Main Website for The Odin Project
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:27 reviews, 42 commits, 31 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Briggs primarily contributed to the curriculum website, focusing on the front-end and backend aspects. They updated seed files to reflect new lesson content and rearranged lessons within the web development curriculum. In addition, the user frequently updated the Discord invite link across the application, including in the UI, email templates, and helper files. These actions indicate a significant role in maintaining and improving the user experience and content of the website.
ruby-on-railscurriculumcssjavascriptruby
I3uckwheat/Portfolio
Feb 2018 - May 2020
Contributions:52 PRs, 112 pushes, 13 branches in 2 years 3 months
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