Summary
Bryan Venable is a pragmatic software engineer and speaker with 11 years of experience building high-traffic backend systems and full-stack applications, rooted in a mechanical-engineering mindset. His career spans roles from combat engineer in the Army to mechanical design and process engineering, and now to architecting GraphQL and Node.js APIs that integrate with services like Google AdWords and Zapier. He has deployed serverless systems on AWS (Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, Cognito), optimized performance with Redis caching, and delivered production services handling thousands of requests per minute. Bryan is hands-on with hardware projects—quadcopter builds, Raspberry Pi and microcontroller work—which inform his pragmatic approach to software and systems design. Known for meticulous organization and a bias for reliability, he combines low-level systems thinking with pragmatic testing and deployment practices. Based in Boulder Creek, CA, he brings a rare blend of field engineering grit and modern cloud architecture experience.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
University of California San Diego
Engineering, Engineering at Moorpark College
Software Engineering, Software Engineering at Hack Reactor
English, American Sign Language