# Brian Vander Schaaf > Engineering @ LangChain Location: New York, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/brianvanderschaaf ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ LangChain Jan 2024 – Present | New York, New York, United States ### Cofounder, CTO @ Frontrunner Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | New York, New York, United States • Guided technical strategy and owned cloud infrastructure, developer experience, security, cost management, and observability • Made and fostered connections that resulted in critical partnerships along with significant investment and cost savings • Interviewed and helped source majority of the team across Engineering, Operations, and Design • Managed QA and SRE teams as they automated tests and repetitive tasks, improved release efficiency, and reduced triage time and false positives • Translated regulatory requirements into technical plans for US and Isle of Man launches • Architected and implemented scalable cloud-native tech stack (AWS) from scratch with Terraform that powered Frontrunner’s decentralized betting exchange and centralized player picks products • Vetted, integrated, and managed relationships with dozens of vendors across varied use cases; built out crucial integrations in identity, fraud, payments, sports data, and product analytics along with efficient internal processes for CI/CD, feature management, and test case tracking • Oversaw employee onboarding, offboarding, SSO setup for tools access, and permissions matrix ### Software Engineer, Infrastructure @ Two Sigma IQ Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Greater New York City Area Led the team responsible for automation, system configuration, reliability, maintainability, scalability, and performance of core cloud-native platform used by all engineering and data science teams (50+ people). • Worked closely with Security, engineering teams, and other Platform teams on reliable software design across varied use cases including infrastructure automation, configuration and software releases, and monitoring. • Launched and led adoption of highly-available self-hosted CI/CD system on Kubernetes (GitLab). • As the first Technical PM, managed the tiger team that established commercialization and delivery standards for the core product. • Authored and pitched technical plan and tradeoff analysis for disaster recovery of critical services to reduce potential downtime from weeks to under 6 hours. ### Software Engineer @ Yodle Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Greater New York City Area Worked as a full stack engineer on the development team responsible for implementation, management, and monitoring of automated email pipeline and custom integrations with clients’ systems. • Redesigned and rebuilt core ETL pipeline responsible for client business logic and distributing data to clients to improve fault tolerance, maintainability, and auditability. • Developed process for cross-pollinating devops and product engineering team practices by becoming the first engineer to split time between infrastructure and engineering teams. ### Teaching Assistant in Computer and Information Science @ University of Pennsylvania Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 Intro to Computer Science in Java – Taught weekly recitations of 20 students, graded homeworks and exams, planned lessons, answered questions during weekly office hours ### Teaching Assistant in Engineering and Applied Science @ University of Pennsylvania Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 Intro to Engineering – Instructed and guided 30 students in labs covering 6 engineering disciplines, graded lab reports; restructured EE/CS extra credit lab to incorporate into curriculum ### Interconnect Sustaining Engineering Intern @ Bloom Energy Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 Developed and managed internal process for large-scale processing of fuel cell parts and data analysis of results Performed experiments to explore material properties of parts and created automated tool with JMP to aid analysis ### Data Science Intern @ Simulmedia, Inc. Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 Developed model for sales team to guarantee advertising gross rating points delivery to clients by using data mining, programming and statistical techniques in R ## Education ### Bachelor of Science in magna cum laude University of Pennsylvania ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/brianvanderschaaf --- Source: https://flows.cv/brianvanderschaaf JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/brianvanderschaaf/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13