# Brian Lai > Software Engineer at Airbyte Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/brianlai1 ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Airbyte Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area • Joined as the 50th employee. In charge of developing and maintaining the frameworks and libraries that allow internal teams and open-source contributors to more effectively build and maintain Airbyte's extensive catalog of over 500+ integrations. • Tech lead responsible for managing systems including the Python SDK library, low-code YAML language, form based UI editor, and end-to-end test services that allows all types of user personas to extract data from web-based API sources. • Primary subject matter expert on how integrations interact with the Airbyte platform. Act as the representative for cross-team design decisions and project owner across multiple work streams and initiatives each quarter. ### Staff Software Engineer @ Segment Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 Segment was acquired by Twilio in November 2020. • Technical lead within Twilio Segment’s growth marketing and user segmentation product. Team purview includes managing how data is transmitted to partner APIs. • Responsible for maintaining and improving data pipeline components that process billions of messages per hour in real time with zero downtime. • Champion the architectural and software development philosophy within the team and across the entire business unit for features related user data synchronization to partner integrations. • In charge of onboarding team members and providing career guidance to early in career engineers. Supervise architecture and feature design sessions to facilitate technical growth within teammates and foster inclusion with rituals like engineer office hours. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Segment Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Software Development Engineer - API Platform @ Workday Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Pleasanton, CA • Design and implement tools and frameworks empowering internal and external application developers to expose company data in a RESTful format. • Organize and coordinate the implementation of major team initiatives such as REST API versioning, beginning with preliminary development all the way to public release and customer demonstrations. • Approach and consider problems from both a usability and engineering perspective in order to maintain a robust system design while providing an optimal user experience for stakeholders. • Devise and advance team efforts to improve code quality and team productivity. Areas of improvement include major redesigns of the project object model and refactors of the end-to-end testing module. • Mentor new hires and accelerate integration into the team by providing guidance on team practices, technical introduction to the codebase, and support on early development work. ### Tools Rotational Software Engineer @ Workday Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 | Pleasanton, CA • Rotated through backend engineering teams across the company to learn about and work with various components within the Workday product. Teams I worked with include Cloud Connect Financials, UI Server, and Visual Platform Services. • Responsible for driving new features and projects as an embedded engineer including new financial integrations to ingest bank records, redesigning the employee graph and hierarchy generation, and creation of new UI widgets to support product features. • Acquired new insight on how different teams operate on a day to day basis while adapting to each team’s best practices and offering new techniques to improve collaboration for each team I was a part of. ### Associate Developer Intern @ Workday Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Pleasanton, California • Wrote an internal web application with Ruby on Rails that monitored the status of code changes and builds through the entire testing pipeline • Participated in the complete agile software development process including daily standups, sprint planning, and quick delivery of functional code through test driven development • Worked closely with customers, conducted product demonstrations, and performed weekly requirement analysis to ensure user satisfaction with our product ### Undergraduate CSE Tutor (Data Structures and OO Design) @ UC San Diego Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | La Jolla, California • Provide guidance to over 200 students in regards to course programming assignments and hold lab office hours for additional one-on-one assistance • Teach numerous subjects covered throughout the course including the implementation of Unit tests, construction of various data structures, and utilization of performance tests • Guide laboratory sections that help students develop skills involving the usage of various software tools and techniques • Proctor and evaluate quizzes and exams taken during the class and lab sections ### Software Development Intern - Emerging Technologies @ Websense Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | San Diego, California • Work closely with content gateway development team on current and future software modules • Integrate company appliances and software, including blade servers and Triton Security Suite, for the construction of test apparatus to be used within the design group • Assist with the deployment of new updates and releases of primary software product, Triton Security Suite • Constructed sets of custom in-house test fixtures for use within development groups including automated JMeter Load Tests and Web Polygraph Tests ## Education ### Bachelor of Science in Computer Science UC San Diego ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/brian-lai-306b7956 --- Source: https://flows.cv/brianlai1 JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/brianlai1/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-10