# Brian Zerfass > Web @ Copilot Location: New York, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/brianzerfass ## Work Experience ### Staff Web Engineer @ Copilot Money Jan 2024 – Present ### Founding Engineer @ Peerbound Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 ### Lead Engineer @ AllTakes Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 Built & managed a realtime web based video/messaging application based on WebRTC. Lead & built the technical strategy of all frontend applications, e2e testing, and CI/CD pipelines. Worked directly with CEO & CTO in setting product direction and managing the technical strategy of the platform. ### VP of Engineering @ Blue Bite Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | New York, New York, United States Responsible for managing, strategy, execution, and growth of team pre/post acquisition. Work with leadership to set company technical goals and structure short-term & long-term roadmaps. Grew team from 7 to 18 distributed engineers responsible for frontend/backend/mobile, quality assurance, infrastructure, and team productivity. Lead overall technical strategy/design of SaaS products; scaled to serve millions of interactions a year. Lead initiative to centralize Design System working with Product and Design. ### Lead Engineer @ Blue Bite Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | New York, New York, United States Lead development effort in rearchitecting IoT platform from an internal tool to SaaS product. Converted monolithic platform into various microservices. Lead a team of 7 engineers. Lead the effort in transition entire frontend stack to React. Lead initiative in converting infrastructure to IaC. Developed a unified CI/CD pipeline for all services. Introduced Agile Software Development into team increasing release cadence and visibility ### Senior Front End Engineer @ Blue Bite Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | New York, New York, United States Responsible for managing/mentoring 2 Front End Engineers. Designed and lead technical development of internal IoT platform leveraging React, Redux (Sagas), SCSS as a SPA via RESTful API. Built and maintained internal React Component Library. Developed reusable lightweight experiences written in Vue capable of serving millions of interactions around the world. Created CI/CD pipeline for SPAs using CircleCi. Performed Unit Test via Karma/Enzyme; managed build tools using Webpack. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Yashi Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | New York City Metropolitan Area The development and design of a Demand Side (DSP) & Supply Side (SSP) Advertising Platform from initial concept through the full life cycle of software development to produced a platform that assists in millions of video ads being serve on a monthly basis. Built out process to easily allow advertisers to use geotargeting and other targeting features to hit their target audience. Developed statistical tools and reporting that allows analysis of thousands data points in real time. ### Software Engineer @ Yashi Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | New York City Metropolitan Area Assisted in the development/design of a Laravel based real-time bidding advertising platform built from the ground up. Built custom JavaScript library that ingests thousands of records from CSV/Excel to automatically parse/validate based on provided data. ### Student Technology Assistant Program @ Monmouth University Jan 2011 – Jan 2014 | West Long Branch, New Jersey As a lab assistant I installed, monitored, and updated computers and printers in 6 labs throughout campus; listened and logged students’ problems and dealt with them appropriately. ### Information Technology Lab Assistant @ Monmouth University Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | West Long Branch, New Jersey Assisted professors and students where I interacted one-on-one with students or guided the class with Microsoft Applications and the importance of their use related to their different majors. ### Automation Engineer Intern @ Air Products and Chemicals Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 Set up Task Sequence for Language Packs using the App Catalog Automation Package in SCCM 2012 for Language Pack Deployment. Heavily involved in OSD Build Testing for Microsoft Windows. Worked in PowerShell, trained by Microsoft, to developed functions to build for PowerShell Application Deployment Template and converted Visual Basic Scripting into PowerShell. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science Monmouth University ### Minor in Information Technology Monmouth University ### Parkland High School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/bzerfass - Portfolio: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xvDgoYfK-WYLCLivEiHxKgePSshXxqhI/view?usp=sharing --- Source: https://flows.cv/brianzerfass JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/brianzerfass/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-31