# Brian Sunter

> Lead Software Engineer

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/briansunter

I am a software engineer experienced in shipping end to end systems on AWS. 

I’m passionate about using technology to solve problems and sharing what I learn with others. I have experience across a broad range of domains including microservice architecture, observability, web/mobile clients, and devops practices.

Skills:
• Languages: Typescript, Java, Python, Clojure
• AWS: EC2, ELB, ECS, Lambda, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, S3, SQS, Kinesis, EventBridge, CloudFront, Route53, CDK, CloudFormation, CloudWatch
• Frameworks: Express, Nest.js, Spring, FastAPI, Django, React
• Infrastructure: Postgres, Redis, Memcached, Elasticsearch, Kafka, Nginx, Docker, Jenkins, Terraform

## Work Experience
### Platform Lead @ BankShift
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025
Designed and shipped a self-service digital-banking platform on AWS Marketplace, enabling regional banks and credit unions to launch production cloud environments.

• Architected a scalable AWS stack (EKS, Fargate, Terraform) maintaining 99.99 % availability
• Developed modular microservices in TypeScript/Express, supporting seamless web, mobile, and partner SDK integrations
• Implemented core financial services — Identity verification, account onboarding, and transaction aggregation.
• Delivered a Next.js customer-facing portal with real-time balances, fund transfers, and searchable transaction history
• Built a Next.js admin dashboard for platform configuration, role-based user management, and white-label branding
• Created low-code white-label engine that reduces customization and deployment timelines from weeks to minutes
• Implemented security controls and automated monitoring across the stack

### Lead Software Engineer @ Capital One
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California
Launched an internal platform for software engineers and data scientists to manage the lifecycle of digital assets (REST APIs, Kafka streams, datasets)

• Architected highly available AWS infrastructure accommodating both containerized applications and Lambda services

• Designed a micro-frontend Nginx solution to unify single-page web applications from diverse teams. Delivered comprehensive solution encompassing self-service onboarding, multi-region ECS deployment, CI/CD processes, and proactive monitoring

• Engineered scalable feature-toggle system, enabling remote activation of new functionality. Deployed a multi-region active-active serverless architecture using Node.js, Lambda, and DynamoDB Global Tables

• Developed self-service web experience for Kafka stream provisioning and discovery. Successfully deployed over 1,500 streams while ensuring compliance with the company's data quality standards and best practices.

• Spearheaded security and resiliency improvements across multiple teams, mentoring colleagues in AWS and architectural best practices. Unified and enhanced system observability by standardizing logging, monitoring, metrics, and tracing. Crafted comprehensive alert playbooks and directed disaster recovery drills to improve system resiliency

### Senior Software Engineer @ Capital One
Jan 2016 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, California, United States
Level Money: Contributed to the backend development of a widely-used (800k+ users) consumer budgeting app built in Clojure. Implemented features including financial transaction aggregation, budgeting tools, and personalized push notifications. Championed enhancements in security and resiliency, introducing encryption-at-rest and multi-region architecture

### Founding Engineer @ SnapUp
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco
Launched an AI-powered shopping assistant app that analyzes screenshots to track product prices across platforms. Acquired by ipsy in 2015

• Implemented core features such as signup, login, price tracking, notifications
• Leveraged on-device machine vision with OpenCV for local preprocessing
• Enhanced app performance through client analytics, A/B testing, and conversion funnel optimization
• Engineered a secure AWS S3 image upload mechanism using pre-signed URLs and the AWS iOS SDK
• Made contributions to the official AWS SDK GitHub repository

### Co-Founder @ Partender - Bar Inventory, Ordering, and Accounting in 15 Minutes
Jan 2011 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco Bay Area
Created a smartphone and cloud-based inventory management solution tailored for the hospitality sector
• Assembled and led engineering team, overseeing the development of a Python Django API and essential client support tools
• Implemented the core iOS application using Objective-C, CoreData, and RestKit
• Selected for 500 Startups accelerator program and successfully secured funding
• Featured on many episodes of Spike TV’s Bar Rescue with 2.2 million viewers
• Customers include many large restaurant groups, the Marriott and Hilton hotel chains

### Developer for IPPD Project @ The Walt Disney Company
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Gainesville, Florida Area
Developed a smartphone application to enhance experience for guests and athletes at Disney ESPN's Wide World of Sports. We used Phone Gap to develop a cross platform app capable of push notifications and gps navigation using open web technologies. In addition, I worked on a node.js express dashboard capable of posting updates and sending push notifications to guests.

### Software Development Engineer Intern @ Amazon
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Greater Seattle Area
Retail Subsidiary Integration (Zappos): Developed a tool for Amazon’s enterprise messaging platform to help
on-call engineers debug and triage customer transaction errors for Amazon retail subsidiaries
• Worked on a Java implementation of the Java Message Service (JMS) spec
• Leveraged test driven development and continuous delivery with Spring framework


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science
University of Florida


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-22