# Bryan Helms

> Staff Software Engineer

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

Experienced engineering generalist and technical leader, with a strong desire to grow and enable teams to build solutions that developers, stakeholders, and customers love to use.

Deep technical experience in the C# and .NET (including .NET Core) stack as well as with TypeScript, React, and Node. Experience with the startup world as well as with larger environments, and developing products from their beginning stages through to maturity.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ GitHub
Jan 2021 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Director Of Engineering @ First Republic Bank
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, California, United States
* Drove architecture and design of Domain-level APIs for Deposits use cases across multiple lines of business
* Led development of orchestration flows across multiple Systems of Records for Deposits operations as part of Core Transformation
* Developed shared core components related to auth token generation and management, Swagger/OpenAPI spec generation from the codebase, and asynchronous processing for API endpoints
* Reviewed the spec and served as subject matter expert for a newly developed complex vendor API that serves as the backbone of Onboarding customers for the Deposits line of business
* Modernized team engineering practices, formalized Banking Platform Group coding standards, and automated related tooling support
* Standardized onboarding development environment for new employees
* Proposed an accepted intern project to develop a "single command" development environment setup, aimed at achieving first week contribution for new developers
* Contributed to organization hiring practices, including refining and teaching how to administer technical interview questions, and calibrating expectations to developer experience level

### Senior Software Engineer @ Microsoft
Jan 2016 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, California, United States
* Senior engineer on the Core UX team for App Center
* Worked closely with design to build and maintain a React-based component library based on design system
* Led "surge" teams for revamping App Center Releases portal and first run experience
* Worked as lead engineer with PM team to architect the App Center Auth product onboarding and setup flow during its beta
* Mentored two interns to successful completion of their projects (improved onboarding flow and dark mode)
* Served as interim team lead for a cumulative of 2.5 months while manager was on paternity leave
* Worked extensively with accessibility (a11y) improvement efforts on the App Center portal
* Built CI/CD pipeline and UI libraries for localization (l10n) and internalization (i18n) assets for the App Center Portal
* Built the App Center account creation, management, invitation, and email notification flows as an early member of the Core Services team

### Systems Engineer @ Xamarin
Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco, California, United States
* Developed critical information tools used daily by sales, finance, and leadership
* Integrated customer success and retention tooling for the product and storefront
* Led integration of sales tax calculation and charging (providing significant revenue savings)
* Developed tools and systems to allow greater flexibility and self-service for sales teams
* Worked on major portions of the customer-facing infrastructure and public sites (Xamarin Store, Website, Careers portal, Single Sign-On)

### Software Engineer @ Harris Corporation
Jan 2006 – Jan 2013
* Worked on a GUI-based command and control (C&C) system for shipboard IP radio on Windows XP Embedded
* Led the team developing a command and control (C&C) system for a field-deployable satellite communications platform
* Developed a web-based monitor and control application for a next-gen VOIP-based system for air traffic control (enabled by using SignalR)
* Served as a subject matter expert for C# and .NET within the company
* Wrote and taught sections of the internal C# training course, focusing on lambdas, LINQ, and new features of .NET 4


## Education
### Master of Science (M.S.) in Industrial and Systems Engineering (Engineering Management track)
University of Florida

### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Engineering (Software Concentration)
University of Central Florida


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-12