Brian Stauff

Catholic media company. Led mobile engineering org build-out from scratch.

• Built the software engineering organization: hired engineers, stood up CI/CD pipelines, implemented IaC with Pulumi, established code quality standards and E2E testing practices
• Rewrote Android media player using Media3 — reduced crashes 31%, non-fatals 85%, ANR events 96%
• Replaced in-app messaging platform in a single 2-week sprint, cutting $45,000/year in contract costs
• Drove app growth from 120K to 175K MAU and 20K to 50K DAU
• Designed ratings prompt that produced a 2,700% increase in 5-star reviews
• Increased release cadence by 422%; achieved 3-hour Sev1 bug lead time
• Led transition from UIKit → SwiftUI and XML Views → Jetpack Compose

Animal health company. Next-gen veterinary practice management platform.

• Maintained authorization microservice handling 50,000 requests/second
• Tech lead on PDF conversion system delivery
• Optimized SQL queries resulting in 30% faster onboarding migration for new veterinary practices
• Ran incident command for two Sev1 outages with a 3-hour MTTR
• Mentored 6 engineers through regular lunch & learns and community of practice sessions
• Collaborated with DevOps to containerize and migrate legacy ASP.NET applications into Kubernetes

EV rental startup for luxury high-rise apartments in Chicago.

• Designed and built real-time Tesla fleet telemetry ingestion platform
• Shipped two mobile apps to both app stores in under 3 months
• Designed AWS architecture (EKS, RDS, Lambda) with right-sizing and cost optimization
• Built custom observability and APM platform on the Grafana stack
• Delivered technical due diligence presentations to VC investors
• Led a team of 3 engineers; established agile standards and engineering best practices

Healthcare company building life safety-critical systems.

• Designed and implemented event-driven architecture that scaled message throughput from 100 msg/min to 30,000 msg/sec — a 300× improvement
• Built fully OIDC/OAuth 2.0 compliant authentication, authorization, and audit system using IdentityServer4
• Extended custom OSI Layer 4 protocol server; built SIP telephony integration
• Led migration from TFSVCC to Git and coached the team on modern source control practices
• Maintained and extended Angular front end and Xamarin Forms mobile application