Bryan Veloso
Senior Technical Program Manager at Avalonstar
Glendale, California, United States
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Top SchoolBryan Veloso is a Senior Technical Program Manager and entrepreneur with over a decade of experience designing products and building communities across gaming, live streaming, and entertainment. He began as an early designer at GitHub and Facebook, led social product and UX work at Twitch, and later founded Altair Interactive to prove a creator-first streaming model—refusing VC and prioritizing creator wellbeing. Bryan combines self-taught development skills with formal design training, often immersing himself as a broadcaster to inform product decisions and surface practical UX improvements. He has led multidisciplinary teams from startup to corporate settings, shipping features like Twitch’s Emoticon Selector and shaping GitHub’s Gist and Octicons visual language. Based in Glendale, CA, he brings an empathetic leadership style that treats people as humans first and leverages personal passions—gaming and Japanese idol culture—to inspire innovative fan experiences. Bryan’s uncommon blend of hands-on creativity, remote collaboration experience, and creator perspective makes him a pragmatic builder of community-centered products.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BS Entrepreneurship, BS Entrepreneurship at Johnson & Wales University
English
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Github Skills (89)
game-development10
yaml10
mysql10
multiplayer10
server10
facebook9
cross-platform9
playing8
animation8
twitch8
continuation8
control-center8
twitter-client8
react8
discord-bot8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
avalonstar/synthfunc
Feb 2018 - Sep 2019
Contributions:6 PRs, 154 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 6 months
avalonstar/dot-com
Mar 2020 - Sep 2021
Sanity-powered. Gatsby-powered. Iterative design.
Contributions:29 PRs, 119 pushes, 29 branches in 1 year 7 months
gatsbyreactgatsby-starteriterativesanity
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