# Bryce Fitzsimons > Technical lead @ GrowthBook Location: Redwood City, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/brycefitzsimons Early engineer at GrowthBook (YC W22), an open source feature flagging and experimentation platform. Technical lead & engineering manager in SaaS A/B testing, ed-tech, and game publishing. President and founder of Dojo.com and GameMazing. Cofounder of ScreenBlazer and DigiFrame. MBA @ UC Davis, valedictorian. ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ GrowthBook (YC W22) Jan 2022 – Present ### Senior Staff Software Engineer @ Course Hero Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 ### Staff Software Engineer @ Course Hero Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 ### Technical Lead, Engineering Manager @ Education.com Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 ► Technical lead for all student-facing applications. ► Led a team of 5 engineers, including mentoring, training, career development, technical speccing and assigning work, code reviews, agile sprint management. ► Lead developer for entire Brainzy web application, a suite of educational games, digital learning content, multiplayer online classrooms, assignments, rewards, currency, shop, Brainzy Paint, Brainzy Music. (React, Redux, HTML5/Canvas, JS ES6, PHP, MongoDB, MySQL, Webpack) ► Mobile lead developer for Brainzy iOS and Android app. Shared codebase with Brainzy web app, plus additional support for SSO, in-app purchases, web/mobile subscription sync, native device features (Cordova, React, Redux, ReduxSaga, webpack, babel) ► Lead developer for new learning games. Helped architect our custom game engine. Trained and mentored all incoming game developers. (HTML5/Canvas, JS) ► Grew digital game usage from 1% of premium users (2017) to over 40% (2020) by building amazing products and by improving discoverability and retention via several impactful AB tests. ► Developed many features of the Education.com website, including Collections, Challenges (adaptive learning), our digital typing program, SEO pages, CMS tools, etc. ► Wrote music for games, contributed artwork/UI (Photoshop, Illustrator), did voice acting for digital storybooks and games. ### Head of Software and Co-founder @ DigiFra.me Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 ► Built client and server software for an open widget platform aimed at e-ink and other smart screens. (JS, PHP, MySQL, Laravel, Nginx, Node.js, Express, microservices) ► Performed all infrastructure and devops using AWS. ► Business development, pitched and collaborated with major mobile phone OEMs. ### President and Founder @ Dojo.com Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 ► Founded premier gaming portal aimed at sponsoring, developing, and publishing games for Android, iOS, Flash, HTML5, and Steam. ► Lead a team of developers, artists, and business specialists to develop and license 60+ new games and build two social APIs, site-wide CMS applications, and custom analytics tools. ► Grew user base to 40,000 registrations by implementing a multi-channel customer acquisition strategy and loyalty-based retention program. ► Implemented a successful go-to-market strategy, reaching 540,000 monthly active users within six months by coordinating press releases and interviews, syndicating games to partner sites, and executing social media and ad campaigns. ► Built core technologies powering two social gaming platforms using PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, jQuery, ActionScript, Linux, and Apache. ### CTO, Co-founder @ Rev4 Media Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 Rev4 Media's ScreenBlazer is a platform delivering user interactivity to movie theaters through our Second Screen technology. We provide movie trailer analytics in real time, directly from users' smart phones. ### President and Founder @ GameMazing LLC Jan 2011 – Jan 2016 ► Built company business model and developed core technology for game publishing sites. ► Increased annual revenue by 160% in 2013 by optimizing an inventory of banner and video/VPAID ads, managing user and traffic acquisition campaigns, and building an advertiser network. ► Expand global reach to deliver maximum impressions to advertising partners. ### Auditor @ Office of Inspector General, GSA Jan 2009 – Jan 2012 | San Francisco ► Lead audits to facilitate schedule contract negotiations with large government vendors. ► Experienced in financial, construction claim, contract, and program audits. ### Web & Software Developer @ various start-ups Jan 2006 – Jan 2008 ► Developed custom apps, sales portals, and CRM implementations for businesses and startups in banking/mortgages, music, and retail sales. ### Inventory Manager @ Watermelon Music Jan 2004 – Jan 2006 | Davis, California ## Education ### Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Entrepreneurship and Strategy University of California, Davis - Graduate School of Management ### Bachelor's degree in Economics University of California, Davis ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/brycefitzsimons --- Source: https://flows.cv/brycefitzsimons JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/brycefitzsimons/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12