Software development · Team development · Infra

Bryan Field

Senior Engineer / CTO

Two decades of experience building beautiful software, across enterprise and startups, including legacy and high-complexity, backend-heavy environments.

Fast ICSuccessful Leader
Top 0.23% Stack Overflow2007 Sun Certified Programmer
Experience
Solving the most complex problems.
Inspiring the team.Using technical debt wisely.
TensorWave(Series B AI Hyperscaler)
Senior Software Engineer
Oct 2025 — Present
11 mos
  • Bare metal
  • Led small team developing Rust-based on-node agent micro-optimized for performance
  • Observability, alerting and event-based applications at scale
  • Diagnosing and resolving degraded AI training clusters
  • Rapid webapp development
Chief Technology Officer
Aug 2024 — Sep 2025
1 yr 1 mo
  • They liked me so much they wanted me back
  • Continue growth of the developers
  • Widen product offerings to reach more verticals
  • Continue improving processes for team scalability
  • Successfully sourced new incoming CTO before departure
Senior Software Engineer
Feb 2023 — Aug 2024
1 yr 6 mos
  • Refactoring 'organic afterthought' code to become extensible and forward-thinking, completely transparent and almost always bug-free to the user
  • ^ improve developer productivity, often seeing ROI in < 3 months from time of refactor
  • Improve performance and make complex state management less fragile
  • Rapidly introduce TypeScript to legacy code
  • Delivering feature requests very quickly (before AI was the norm)
Director of Software
Mar 2021 — Feb 2023
1 yr 11 mos
  • Transformed dev team from offshore to onshore
  • Complete hosting migration & overhaul authentication with minimal downtime
  • Bring a fresh product roadmap to life unlocking multiplication of ARR
  • Introduced lifecycle workflows and documentation of procedures to allow the support and development teams to scale
Walmart HW TEMS
Software Engineer
Apr 2020 — Mar 2021
11 mos
  • Automation of provisioning to eliminate many manual steps in their processes
  • Improved security
  • Ported shell to python averaging less than 30 seconds per line with > 99% accuracy. (before AI)
  • Mentoring & documentation
  • Lead webapp developer
  • All the difficult stuff went to me 🙂
Principal Engineer
~ 2005 — Mar 2019
too long
  • Directly responsible for hundreds of software products
  • Continuous exposure to business meetings
  • Mobile apps and webapps
  • Dozens of infrastructure migrations
  • Bare metal
  • On-call for any downtime incidents
  • The good old days
Recognition

Youngest ever recorded

2007 Sun Certified Java Programmer

2007 Sun Certified Programmer certificate
Technologies
RustGoPythonPerlPHPNode.jsNext.jsReactHTML5CSSJavaScriptTypeScriptAngularAvaCypressWebView mobileAndroidAWT (Java UI)JavaJSPSpringJPA / HibernateJasperReportsJUnitLuceneMongoMySQL / MariaDBPostgreSQLInformixSQLiteSQL ServerRegexAnsibleBash / ShellDockerK8sSLURMTLSCisco IOSDNS / BINDLinuxIllumos / SolarisZFSLDAPWindowsPowerShellAWSDigitalOceanPrometheus / GrafanaOpenTelemetrynew tech fast!
Top 0.23% Stack Overflow
Top 0.86% IT Security
Top 4–5% Pluralsight
(first attempt for each)
Top 6% TripleByte
(first attempt)
Business experience
Also designs financial software
Highlights

Spam filter; rich text email

One of the more interesting projects I was responsible for was the company's spam filter. Somewhat a game of cat and mouse. We continued to iterate on this product with combinations different text and server configuration rules. One of the more effective automations was detection of new patterns that were consistent across multiple unrelated users of our email system.

I was responsible for converting our in-house email system from plain text to rich text in a secure way. That was a huge milestone for the company, to keep pace with the changing tech landscape. Circa 2008-2009.

Serialized and FIFO Inventory integrated with Accounting

Everybody's inventory needs are a little different. One manufacturer uses raw materials and will never have exactly the expected quantity consumed in their products. Another is medical device manufacturing where every subcomponent has a serial number which is important for quality control and traceability.

I've created and/or overhauled multiple accounting software products. Some companies require Cash Basis reporting when the source data is inherently Accrual Basis. Among developers I've worked with, it's not widely understood how to do this correctly.

More projects

  • Security incident detection
  • Call management for telemarketing (high volume concurrency backend)
  • At least 7 different drag / drop scheduling calendars in various form factors (hourly, daily, company, personal, etc.)
  • More bespoke authentication systems than I'd like to admit
  • Bongo Chat (despite the name, was a serious productivity tool)
  • Predictive inventory depending on market conditions
  • Countless more

Community

  • Teaching a coding class
  • Am developing / maintaining a non-profit software for Church Voter Guidesincluding AI image validation
  • A few other random sites

Open Source bits

  • My npmhas some interesting modules
  • Once I have time to get prioto be more bulletproof, it will be a gamechanging git tool
  • Little GitHub things
  • Side projects yet to be published

Freelance

  • 2 startup MVPs
  • A couple serious clients in 2019
  • Occaisionally helped a couple companies with burst capacity in recent years on the side
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