Bryan Way
Senior Software Engineer at AI Startups
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolBryan Way is a senior software engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with 11 years of experience building scalable backend systems for video, streaming, crypto, and AI-driven products. He led core backend services at Twitch powering viral clip creation and automated highlights at massive scale, and now focuses on generative AI — shipping DreamBooth/stable diffusion models, fine-tuned LLM agents, and GPT storefront bots for entertainment use cases. Comfortable across Go, Python, and Typescript stacks, he’s launched AI-first products at startups and contributed IPv6 fixes to a notable open-source node-ip library. He also organizes a 1,600+ member Generative AI meetup in SF, blending community building with hands-on model work — an engineer who pairs production-grade systems thinking with creative ML tooling.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Economics and Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Economics and Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon UniversityLakeside School
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Github Skills (16)
ip10
ip-address10
nodejs10
ips10
javascript10
ipv610
ipv410
php9
regular-expression9
testing8
http6
html6
browser6
content-type6
command-line6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
indutny/node-ip
Aug 2015 - May 2016
IP address tools for node.js
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 5 PRs, 5 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Bryan primarily focused on improving the `node-ip` library's IPv6 compatibility and functionality. They reworked the IPv6 conversion logic within the `toBuffer` function, addressing issues with inline IPv4 addresses. Additional work included adding IPv6 mapped IPv4 address support to `isPrivate` and `isLoopback` methods and correcting a bug related to the public/private logic. The changes involve modifications to the core IP address manipulation and validation routines.
node-jsaddressipv6nodejsip-address
bryanwayb/nodesocket-nodejs
Jun 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:6 releases, 39 commits, 9 pushes in 3 months
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