Hi! I’m Brian Reich.  First things first: thanks for taking the time to review my resumé. Out of all the AI slop that crosses your screen today, I hope this unique, hand-crafted and fully human-generated slop stands out from the rest.

At my core I am a problem solver. I fell in love with programming, and the web, early in life. At this stage in my career, I’ve learned to focus on values and less on tools and languages.

I value consistency, quality, speed, autonomy, and creativity. I’m at my best in an organization that understands those values are not in conflict. I believe teams should self-organize, communicate, and adopt a process that works for them. Today, I think that process usually looks a lot like Continuous Delivery, XP, and the practices found in shops that practice them. I value simplicity, testing, iteration, and understanding and adapting my approach to software to fit within the business context. I like an intellectual challenge. I think experimentation is important,  and throwing code away is fine as long as you learn something. I like working in an organization that lets me out of the code-monkey pen to think about the bigger picture.

I’ve spent the last 6 years of my career growing from IC to leadership. I’ve managed a legacy SaaS project. I’ve balanced modernization with business needs. I’ve led a massive security remediation effort. I knocked down the silos within our organization to build features based on stakeholder input, versus speculative features our customers won’t use.  I supported and mentored my team. I aggressively cut cloud costs to the tune of about 40% per month.

I’m incredibly proud of the work I’ve done, and I planned to keep doing it. But as it turns out, “acquisitions are a thing.”  When the small company I worked for was acquired, nobody “moved my cheese,” but the cheese sure got harder to swallow. And so I’m seeking my next adventure, free from the bounds of a Private Equity firm’s org chart that causes out of memory errors if you try to follow it.

Thanks for your time, and I hope you’ll consider me for your team.

Sincerely,
Brian Reich
Technical Director & Senior Web Developer
1902 North Hill Drive
Winfield, PA 17889
brian@brianreich.dev
(570) 939-7322

Soft Skills	Technical Skills
Technical Management Managing up and down the org chart Coaching, Mentoring Breaking down organizational silos Hiring, firing, onboarding, and offboarding Listening Understanding what motivates IC’s Building alignment Making decisions Writing and maintaining documentation, policies, and procedures XP and Continuous Delivery Methodologies	Git, GitHub, GitHub Actions CI/CD Unit Testing E2E testing Secure Coding Practices AWS Cloud Infrastructure Modern PHP (8+) Legacy Archaeology/Modernization HTML, CSS, and JavaScript Web Components API JS Frameworks (React, Angular) SQL (MySQL, MS SQL) Windows, Linux, FreeBSD Shell Scripting Jira

EXPERIENCE

CORE Business Solutions – Director of Technology

SEPT 2024 – PRESENT

• Incorporated company IT responsibilities when our IT Administrator left. Performed all IT tasks, hired, and managed a replacement. Managed 50+ employee accounts and devices across Microsoft 365, SentinelOne, and N-Central
• Implemented IT Helpdesk system, 100% of issues now reported and completed through Jira
• Take over responsibility for ISO 27001 implementation, successfully completed 2024 audit with zero findings; improved our Secure Disposal Policy and others in preparation for 2025 audit
• Lead security remediation project of cloud infrastructure and 1.5 million lines of legacy code and 1,500 discovered vulnerabilities
• Oversee Infrastructure as Code transition (Ansible, Terraform), leading to 0 downtime due to “cowboy IT” changes and zero-downtime infrastructure updates.
• Saved another product team from extinction by rearchitecting their cloud product’s architecture  to comply with CMMC

CORE Business Solutions – Director of Software

JULY 2024 – SEPT 2024

• Rearchitecture of cloud infrastructure to improve security, simplify and improve permissions, implement SSO, and reduce cloud costs by 40%
• Given technical oversight of Software Development and DevOps
• Added to Senior Leadership of the organization
• Assist in development of 2025 Roadmap and Security Enhancement Goals
• Support technical aspects of company acquisition and integration including penetration test; wrote remediation plan which contributed to the successful sale of the company
• Improved release cadence from “bi-weekly” to “when it’s ready”, which is often a few times a day

CORE Business Solutions – Software Development Manager

MARCH 2022 – JULY 2024

• Manage team of 9 (6 developers, 1 analyst, 1 QA tester, 1 product manager)
• Responsible for all stages of SDLC
• Adoption, configuration, and management of Jira Cloud
• Expansion of the software team, hiring, and managing all members including 5 developers, tester, BA, and UX designer
• Created of a Product Manager position
• Facilitation of improved cross organizational communication to ensure our work better met the needs of our internal and external users
• Drive ongoing agile software development initiatives based on XP and Continuous Delivery including E2E testing using Cypress, CI/CD using GitHub Actions, pipeline automation scripts using Jira API, GitHub API, and Bash
• Improve release cadence from once every few months to a reliable two-week cycle.
• Facilitated development of design system in Figma, and new component implementation using Web Components
• Worked with IT to successfully migrate our SaaS application to AWS GovCloud (Commercial and GovCloud, EC2, S3, RDS)
• Spearheading migration from self-hosted MySQL to AWS RDS to improve reliability, reduce downtime for failover, and reduce costs

CORE Business Solutions – Software Development Lead

DECEMBER 2019 – MARCH 2022

• Responsible for hiring and onboarding additional developers
• Responsible for development and ongoing maintenance of team onboarding resources
• Responsible for development of processes and procedures, specifically to support attainment of ISO 9001 and 27001 certification, and to support additional scaling of the team
• Responsible for plan and implementation of updated software development practices (coding, documentation, security standards, unit testing
• Spearheaded development of reusable component library (in vanilla JS)

CORE Business Solutions – Senior Application Developer

JULY 2019 – DECEMBER 2019

• Maintain, and enhance code written in Perl, PHP 4, and vanilla frontend
• Implemented version control and virtualized dev environments
• Upgrade PHP code from 4 to 7
• Redesigned/recoded Report Editor feature

Reich Web Consulting – Freelance Web Developer

JUNE 2014 – JULY 2019

• Specialized in custom development
• Retainer with Catalyst Fabric Solutions in Marianna, FL
• Developed print on demand API, manufacturing process automation, and frontends using Asp.Net, C#, PHP, and Angular to automate facility
• Processed millions of dollars in print on demand jobs via API. Batch print jobs to fabric printers in JDF XML. Generated job tickets, scannable through facility. Generated shipping labels and packing slips using UPS, FedEx, and Endicia APIs. 

EDUCATION

Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA – BS Computer Science

September 2002 -May 2006

Bloomsburg’s program was very practical. I was exposed to many programming languages including C, C++, x86 Assembly, and SQL. We leaned deep  into Java, which shaped my personal coding style.  As a result I love OOP, have a deep fondness for design patterns, prefer composition over inheritance, and embrace the concepts of clean code and clean engineering.