# Brian C. > Software Engineer at Lightspark Location: Los Angeles, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/brianc1 ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Lightspark Jan 2024 – Present | Los Angeles, California, United States ### Software Engineer @ Google Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States ### Software Engineer @ Inhance Digital Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Los Angeles Metropolitan Area • Developed a greenfield CMS solution to migrate client resources onto Google Cloud Storage and mapped the associated data fields to a MongoDB cloud cluster behind a secure GraphQL API • Collaborated with and mentored a group of ASU students on GCP, Kubernetes, React, and Unity for VR to develop a virtual command center that improved fire response times by 10% in initial testing • Established a Jenkins CI/CD pipeline to automate unit/integration testing with React Testing Library+Jest to streamline the deployment of our products to Google Container Registry and Cloud Run • Leveraged React Hooks, Suspense, and Context with Tailwind/SCSS to build performant apps with ApolloClient caching and reactive variables in React state for component render on cache update • Migrated legacy jQuery codebases to modern libraries and responsive mobile UIs with embedded 3D PlayCanvas live experiences for clients like Amgen, AstraZeneca, and Booz Allen Hamilton ### Software Engineer @ arteMetrics (Open Source) Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Los Angeles Metropolitan Area • Deployed an Apollo GraphQL Server monitoring tool for both monolithic and microservice deployments of Apollo GraphQL Server to save clients thousands of dollars a year on proprietary monitoring tooling • Collaborated with a local tech accelerator, opensourcelabs, to fund, productionize, and launch arteMetrics for hundreds of open-source developers across the United States • Integrated D3 into our React SPA to build comprehensive visual representations of client GraphQL performance metrics captured via an NPM package injected into the server instantiation •Leveraged AWS lambda functions behind a GraphQL endpoint to relay mutations to a production SQL database built with Sequelize ORM to prevent unauthorized changes to client data ### Clinical Genetics Laboratory Scientist @ UNITY FERTILITY CENTER, LLC Jan 2016 – Jan 2020 ### Research Scientist - Dhablania and Kim Global Medicine Fellowship @ University of Southern California Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Odisha, India ### Research Scientist @ University of California, Los Angeles Jan 2011 – Jan 2014 ## Education ### Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Neuroscience UCLA Jan 2010 – Jan 2014 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ch-brian --- Source: https://flows.cv/brianc1 JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/brianc1/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-29