Brik Royster

Passionate about gaming and software design. I want to create software that users love.

Email: brik.royster@gmail.com
GitHub: https://brik.dev
Currently based in Seattle, WA.

Experience

Staff Software Engineer - Affirm (Apr 2022 - Present)

React, TypeScript, Chrome Browser Extensions

Contributed to the Affirm Browser Extension, which makes the Affirm BNPL product accessible on any site for 90k+ users.
Used past experience to design and document a more refined release process for the browser extension, reducing average engineer load and providing a runbook for handling production incidents.

Staff Software Engineer - Fast (Sep 2020 - Apr 2022)

React, TypeScript, GraphQL

Contributed to Fast Checkout, a 1-click checkout product that prides itself on simplicity and speed.
Helped scale the engineering team from ~10 engineers to ~150 through constant interviewing, onboarding, and mentoring.
Part of the Engineering Review Committee, responsible for reading and reviewing most high-level design docs and proposals that go through the engineering org. Became a leader within the frontend teams to help drive change to processes and technologies.
Mentored junior engineers as part of an engineering apprenticeship program within the company.

Senior Software Engineer - Intuit (May 2019 - Sep 2020)

React, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL

Contributed to TSheets, a SaaS time tracking solution with 1 million+ active users, as part of the location/map UI team that focuses on location-based visualizations and reporting features.
Reviewed and tested code from team members and others in the same organization.
Mentored colleagues that were new to my team and the company as a whole.
Wrote and reviewed design docs for large (company-wide) and small (application-wide) code/product changes.

Software Engineer - Google (Apr 2018 - Apr 2019)

Angular, TypeScript, Go, MySQL, GCP

Contributed to Orbitera, a Cloud Commerce reseller solution, as part of the whitelabel marketplace team that created a highly configurable web storefront for partners to sell their cloud products on.
Mentored new team members as our organization rapidly grew in size (~3x in one year)
Regularly conducted interviews and provided extensive feedback on candidates
Passionately tested and filed feedback on both released and unreleased products created by other teams within the company.

Software Engineer - Relias Learning (formerly WhiteCloud Analytics) (Jun 2015 - Mar 2018)

AngularJS, JavaScript, Java Spring, Ruby, MySQL, Ansible, AWS

Contributed to Care Analytics, a SaaS healthcare analytics platform used by hospitals and care providers to visualize their performance and their population's health as a whole.
Worked through the migration of the SaaS infrastructure from an on-prem data center to AWS, including product infrastructure changes and automating creation of application servers via Ruby/Ansible scripting.
Worked on various parts of tech stack/eng teams, from DevOps/infrastructure to backend to frontend.

High-Performance Computing Systems Administration Intern - Boise State University (Mar 2014 - May 2015)

Linux, Bash, Sysadmin

Gained vast experience working in a Linux environment
Performed systems administration tasks including compiling of applications, system troubleshooting, and user administration
Regularly met with researchers regarding new endeavors and assisted in the organization and implementation of projects.

Projects

Super Mario 64 Community Projects

Angular, Node, TypeScript, GCP

Created various small web tools and bots used within the Super Mario 64 speedrunning community, typically written using NodeJS/Angular and hosted on Google Cloud Platform.

GitHub repositories:

bthl.es - https://bthl.es

Angular, TypeScript, Material, Firebase

Created a URL shortening service using Angular Material and Firebase. 500+ monthly visitors.

GitHub repository: https://github.com/brikr/bthles

Advent of Code

TypeScript, Node

Participated since 2019 in Advent of Code, a 25-day community coding challenge. Most problems involve data structure/algorithms solutions.

GitHub repository of my 2021 solutions: https://github.com/brikr/advent-of-code-2021
Day 19 was probably my favorite challenge from this year. I knew the solution involved some linear algebra to match up the data sets, but I never took that class in school. It felt like I had to invent some math that I knew existed, which was a lot of fun.

Foosey

Ruby, Sinatra, AngularJS, JavaScript, Ionic, AWS

Co-developed a mobile application/website for tracking statistics across a league of foosball players. Written in Ruby (Sinatra) and Ionic/AngularJS and hosted on AWS.

Education

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science - Boise State University (Graduated Dec 2016)

Key courses: Data Structure & Algorithms, Operating Systems, Parallel Computing, Distributed Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Databases.
Part of a 3-person team that placed 22nd out of 198 teams in the United States competing in IEEEXtreme 9.0, a 24-hour coding competition

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