Summary
Bryan Apellanes is a Staff Software Engineer with 18+ years of hands-on experience building and modernizing full-stack systems, currently driving engineering at Okta. He combines technical leadership with deep implementation skills across C#, Java, cloud (AWS/Azure), containerized microservices and front-end technologies, and is known for designing reusable components across all layers. Bryan has led greenfield and legacy modernization efforts in healthcare and e-commerce, guiding teams on architecture, TDD and maintainable conventions. He is the author of the open-source Bam.Net framework on NuGet, reflecting a long-standing commitment to shared tooling and developer productivity. Based in Longview, Texas, he brings practical cross-platform ops experience from Windows to multiple Linux distributions and a pragmatic focus on scalable, testable code.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
The Evergreen State College