Bryan Herbst
Principal Engineer at Target
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBryan Herbst is a Principal Android engineer based in Minneapolis with 12 years of experience building and leading flagship mobile teams at Target. He progressed from hands-on Android development to leading rewrites from React Native to native Kotlin, owning major guest-facing experiences like Target’s Gift Registry and social savings app. Known for blending deep platform expertise with pragmatic delivery, he architects scalable Android solutions while mentoring cross-functional teams. Bryan’s career roots include consulting and early engineering roles at Nerdery, giving him a strong product-first perspective and an ability to bridge agency and enterprise practices. He holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota and brings a rare combination of long-term retail domain knowledge and modern mobile engineering craft.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
University of Minnesota Twin CitiesDiploma, Diploma at Irondale Senior High School
Github Skills (101)
effort10
http-client10
zooming10
robotics10
connected10
async10
gestures10
pinch-to-zoom10
jvm10
java10
android-app10
android10
kotlin10
asynchronous10
styles10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
bherbst/OpenSSL-Checker
Oct 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:1 release, 39 commits, 15 pushes in 1 month
bherbst/the-blue-alliance-android
Jan 2018 - Feb 2025
An Android app for accessing information about the FIRST Robotics Competition.
Contributions:25 pushes, 62 branches, 3 tags in 7 years 1 month
first-robotics-competitionroboticsfirst-roboticsandroidandroid-app
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