Resumé

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'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 by about 40%.