# Brian L.

> Founder of SparkList

Location: Berkeley, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/brianl

Full-stack developer with 7 years of hands-on experience in coding and architecting a variety of web/mobile applications. Work effectively with minimum guidance. Graduated from UC Berkeley with Electrical Engineering and Computer Science B.S. degree.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2021 – Present | Sunnyvale, California, United States

### Founder @ SparkList
Jan 2018 – Present
- Architecting and developing the social-networking mobile application and its backend server.
- Liaising with users and performing market research to create a product roadmap, design features, and fix defects.
- Leading marketing interns to develop and operate marketing strategies.

Technical Detail:
- Creating a product roadmap from analyzed results of extensive market research and user interviews. Fragmentizing features into sub-tasks and prioritizing them with limited resources. Completing 2-3 app releases per month.
- Building a fully-functional mobile application using React-Native that followed Atomic Design Methodology. Key features include in-app messaging and image-handling.
- Building a micro-services server on AWS/Firebase using Node.js. On top of the basic in-app query handling, other important server features include overnight jobs, push-notification, external content scraping, and data analytics.
- Architecting and implementing SQL and NoSQL databases to store in-app data, analytic data, push-notifications, and user-messages, for various usage.

### Software Engineer II @ MyVest
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018
- Led a few system enhancement projects for MyVest investment platform and one outsourcing project.
- Migrated the platform from JSP to Angular; the development cycle includes writing test cases, pair programming, refactoring codebase, and performing code review.
- Fixed complex stage and production issues to achieve smooth releases.

Project Detail (Risk Simulator):
- Led a cross-functional team to complete an independent contracting project. Utilized Agile Development Model and draft-mockup to receive constant feedback from the client. Finished the project one week prior to the deadline with high client satisfaction. 
- Programmed and engineered the app frontend using Angular. Explicated and clarified the product requirements with the clients and product manager, then articulated with QA engineer and backend developer to complete the tasks given the timeline.

### Independent Contractor @ Self-Employed
Jan 2013 – Jan 2016
- Built a time-management App (iOS, Executive Coach, 2015)
- Built a web app retrieving and storing air sensor data  (Freelance, Chemi-sense, 2015)
- Built a web app for the merchandise loyalty program (Freelance, Regular, 2014)
- Built a hyperlocal chat room app (iOS & Android, ZomeChat, 2013-2015)
- Prototyped a ride-share app targeting coworker and daily commute (2013)
- Prototyped a web-app to simply electronic-form using Ruby on Rails (2013)
- Enhanced a restaurant-based scavenger hunt mobile app  (Freelance, PowNow, 2013)

### Full Stack Developer @ ChemiSense
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | UC Berkeley
Built full stack web application that takes continuous incoming-data from innovated chemical sensor and display those data to authenticated users. The app was built using Django, Node.js, Amazon AWS, and PostgreSQL (www.chemisense.co)

### Agile Developer Intern @ Gap Inc.
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012
Software development that follows Agile methodology


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley
Jan 2010 – Jan 2012

### Amazon architect training


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/blin7990

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Last updated: 2026-03-22