# Brian Case > Principal Engineer/Technical Leader Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/briancase Seasoned software engineer, team manager, and technical lead with 25+ years experience. Passionate about solving complex, system-level problems and creating value-driven products that scale effectively in the marketplace. Languages/Technologies Ruby 3.0 +, Rails 5.0+, Perl, MySQL, Postgres, JavaScript (Angular, ReactJS, JQuery), HAML, SASS/SCSS Testing Unit, Functional, Integration Testing using a variety tools including: RSpec2, Jest, Jasmine, Capybara, Selenium ## Work Experience ### Principal Software Engineer @ Agero, Inc. Jan 2021 – Present | San Francisco, CA ### Senior Software Engineer @ UserTesting Jan 2016 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Responsible for building new product features designed to empower research experts to rapidly onboard novice users into the product and drive growth. Output of effort increased top-of-funnel growth rate by 3x, sustained YoY. Senior engineer tasked with improving product efficiency and modernizing UT's internal API. Ongoing maintenance and delivery of reliable, enterprise features at scale, enabling ambitious growth goals at company level. Technologies: Ruby on Rails, MySQL, Angular ### Director of Engineering @ Dot & Bo Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 Leader of a team of Full Stack Engineers responsible for the technology behind the Dot & Bo shopping experience. We built tools and applications to support the Dot & Bo ecosystem. This included a fully customizable integrated merchandising and content publishing system integrated directly with our storefront code. Our publishing tools were powered by an analytics and machine learning layer that made it possible for our merchandising teams to quickly and efficiently create and publish extensive theme based merchandising content. Our newest applications, both the CMS and storefront were entirely built in React JS hitting a headless Ruby on Rails data api which connected to our fulfillment and inventory systems on the backend. Technologies: Ruby on Rails, AngularJS, ReactJS ### Principal Software Engineer @ Tobi Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Principal Senior Software Engineer at TOBI, an established online brand and fashion company. Responsible for refactoring and streamlining the payment process and order totaling surface area, end-to-end. This effort enabled consistent pricing, and stopped over-refunding losses saving money year on year. Rebuilt internal APIs to enable Tobi to integrate with multiple payment processors simultaneously. Full stack Engineer: Ruby on Rails, Javascript/JQuery, Postgres ### Ruby on Rails Engineer @ Everlane Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 Hired to help the team establish best technical practices to deliver new features in a quick paced environment. Expanded and stabilized e-commerce marketplace and supporting infrastructure for the company. ### Senior Lead Engineer @ Wested Jan 2003 – Jan 2012 | San Francisco Manage, direct and inspire a strong development team to deliver large-scale technology solutions for city, state and federal departments. - Leading new development efforts for both new independent Ruby on Rails applications and new Rails features integrated into legacy systems. - Mentoring and training new developers on best practice solutions and techniques. - Researching and recommending technology solutions for client systems. - Managing development team and ensuring that all projects are staffed and scheduled. - Front End Engineer work. Recently implemented jQuery-based, Ajax-heavy threaded messaging system with dynamic caching for an internal product hosting multiple conversations. ### Ruby on Rails Engineer @ Handle, Inc Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | San Francisco Work with growing team of engineers on launch product for Menlo Ventures funded start-up. - Ruby on Rails programming, RSpec-2/Jasmine test coverage, Haml/Scss/jQuery interactive design and technical documentation. - Defined initial spec/story process and aligned team to push productivity forward by establishing clear agreements on feature goals. ### Online Engineer/Contractor @ Conde Nast Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 Built blogger network, truth.travel. ### Curvo Consulting/Engineering @ Curvo Productions Jan 1999 – Jan 2008 | San Francisco Advise, identify and recommend technology needs and solutions for a variety of independent clients ranging from Fortune 500 publishing companies to Bay Area busisnesses and non-profits. - Built custom CMS and shopping cart for Lamborn Family Vineyards - Created technology map and growth plan for Archbishop Riordan High School - Developed ecommerce registration systems for O’Reilly Networks ### Director of Product Development @ Everything Fabulous Jan 2000 – Jan 2000 | San Francisco - Directed all creative and technical development for the entertainment and eCommerce site, eFlings.com - Hired technology and creative teams to build the application and produce the site - Managed site design and production from early stages until final product launch - Directed the development of theme music, voice-over content, eCards and fictional storylines ### Founder, Producer and Editor of Gamasutra.com @ Gamasutra Jan 1997 – Jan 1999 | San Francisco - Co-founded site and fostered its growth into a 50,000+ member community with over 1 million page-views/mo - Directed design and development of brand name, logo, site layout, and editorial voice - Developed and launched several successful content products that bolstered Gamasutra’s offerings - Produced site redesign in 1999 resulting in a nomination for the 2000 Webby Awards ### Online Producer @ UBM Tech/CMP Media Jan 1997 – Jan 1999 | San Francisco - Produced several technology conference sites including the Game Developers Conference and the Web Design and Development Conference - Directed the development of an integrated membership/eCommerce registration system with proven sales of over 3 million dollars for the Game Developers Conference ## Education ### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Music Composition and Theory, Computer Science Principia College ### Computer Engineering in Film Production Boston University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/briancase - GitHub: https://github.com/curvo --- Source: https://flows.cv/briancase JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/briancase/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12