Summary
Ethan Brown is a Principal Data Engineer with 15 years of experience building data-driven systems and leading teams across startups and large tech companies. He has moved between research and production roles—from postdoctoral work in computational physics at ETH Zürich to leadership positions at Twitch, AWS Interactive Video Service, and Doodle—bringing a scientist’s rigor to engineering and product problems. Known for blending AI, algorithms, and systems thinking, he designs scalable data platforms for video and interactive services and has co-founded a startup (Mindi) through Techstars. Based in Zurich, he pairs deep quantitative training (PhD in Computational Physics) with hands-on execution, often surfacing non-obvious insights from complex data to guide product strategy.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computational Physics, PhD Computational Physics at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
BS BS Physics Math, BS BS Physics Math at University of Oklahoma
English, Spanish, German, Albanian