# Brian Bui > Software Engineer at IBM Location: New York, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/brianbui Passionate advocate of transparency, supportive environments, and mental wellbeing. JavaScript specialist who loves working with React/Node/SQL, and long discussions about microservice architecture and cloud development along the beach. Always looking forward to building innovative tech that will help guide us to a brighter future. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ IBM Jan 2024 – Present | New York, United States ### Storage Partner Technical Specialist @ IBM Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | New York, United States ### Cloud Engineer @ IBM Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | New York, United States ### Software Engineer @ Chronos Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Los Angeles, California, United States • Optimized React to organize a complex UI into independent and reusable components for seamless DOM reconciliation across various microservices • Utilized React Hooks and Context API to encapsulate local state logic for explicit data flow and composition through intermediate components for better code maintainability • Bundled Express with Node.js as a complementary framework to handle routes, requests, and views through an MVC architecture for use with ORM libraries, simplifying routing and support for multiple different HTTP requests • Configured NGINX as a load-balancing, event-driven reverse proxy server with concurrency capabilities to handle requests to the appropriate microservice server • Containerized microservices via Docker to allow multiple teams to integrate and deploy quickly under a lightweight dev environment, thereby increasing overall operational efficiency, and for sandbox testing to assess and analyze communication between services • Integrated D3 and Plotly visualization tools to render microservice data metrics such as microservice endpoint traces, containerized data, and systems information through a UI-focused dashboard • Administered Travis CI as a continuous integration platform for proper testing with automatic builds for accelerated debugging purposes • Designed and deployed a marketing website through AWS S3 and CloudFront via a secure SSL/TLS negotiation protocol for encrypted connections and search ranking boost • Accelerated under OSLabs (opensourcelabs.io) ### ScholarShipper | Developed for a non-profit to assist in scholarship prioritization @ Open Source Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 • Spearheaded Electron as a server-side desktop hybrid GUI to bolster efficient routing and accessibility for multiple teams part of the non-profit organization • Utilized React Hooks for cleaner, more reusable components to reduce work inefficiency • Implemented React Router for a seamless UX for client-side routing, multi-page functionality in a SPA, and rendering of components with respective routes to support low latency page transitions • Implemented standards-compliant relational database management system with concurrency optimization for data storage with transactional integrity ### The Producery | A delivery-focused app to connect customers to local farmers' markets @ Open Source Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 • Developed React and React Router to render multiple components in a unified manner to allow for flow of data to cascade from state to component and dynamically render the UI in an explicit view declaration manner to easily navigate between resources • Applied Redux to coordinate a clean and unidirectional flow of actions to handle state management and maintain a source of truth for multiple declarative components to rely on • Overhauled the frontend using React component libraries to easily render a more visually-appealing interface ### Fish-Bits | A message platform for "schools" of friends to easily coordinate events @ Open Source Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 • Implemented Node.js for its uses as a lightweight and efficient non-blocking event-driven I/O backend platform to handle multiple concurrent and single-threaded connections as asynchronous events, as well as Express as a complementary framework for route-handling • Integrated SQL-based ORM to provide an ACID-compliant storage model with data integrity, concurrency control for versatility, and a fault-tolerant environment • Utilized Axios to relay promise-based HTTP requests to automatically transform JSON and aid in explicit error-handling and provide XSRF (cross-forgery) protection • Coordinated on OAuth2.0 incorporation with Google to provide secure delegated access for REST/APIs through a password credentials grant type ## Education ### Bachelor's degree in Economics California State University, Long Beach ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/umius-brian - GitHub: https://github.com/umius-brian --- Source: https://flows.cv/brianbui JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/brianbui/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-30