Forge
El Paso, TX
(915) 234 - 5171
hunt@websitescenes.com
linkedin.com/in/byrl-hunt-burdick-iv
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Summary
I'm an engineering leader with a track record of planning, building, and scaling successful software products and teams. I have hands-on experience with the full software development lifecycle across multiple stacks. I thrive in innovative environments and value strong team culture and clear responsibilities.
Experience
Squadpilot
Founder / CTO (July 2023 - Present)
- Experimented with numerous AI approaches and APIs to understand their uses and strengths.
- Used Ruby on Rails to build a fully realtime meeting facilitation tool with customizable agendas and AI transcription tooling.
- Built and managed a small team of full stack developers.
- Managed project logistics ensuring timely delivery with scalability considerations.
- Looking for new opportunities due to the funding for the company evaporating unexpectedly.
- Represented the company at conferences, events and team building efforts.
Airship
Senior Software Engineer Manager (January 2021 - August 2023)
- Responsible for many company wide responsibilities that had a direct impact on the company getting acquired by Unosquare, a global services company.
- Responsible for team structure and led efforts to evolve and optimize engineering management structure.
- Created the concept of houses which had many squads.
- Led efforts to consolidate meetings and make them more meaningful and impactful.
- Responsible for hiring across the organization where I implemented testing, onboarding flows and outreach efforts.
- Acted as floater that would drop into various projects and help with blockers, whether they be on the client or technology side.
- Managed multiple managers that had their own reports.
- Very active on the sales side and was brought in regularly as the technical representative for sales and discoveries.
- Sized and estimated projects to assess for feasibility, approach and timeline.
e-Dealer Direct
Co-Founder / CTO (March 2018 - January 2021)
- Directed the creation of a scalable real-time auction platform achieving $1.5M monthly transactions pre-COVID.
- Worked directly with large credit unions like GECU and dealers like Give Me the Vin to actuate feedback on our product, process and platform.
- Optimized the platform to address scaling issues in the front end React codebase as well as the Ruby on Rails backend and related services like Elasticsearch.
- Represented the company at conferences, events and speaker engagements.
Singulution
Founder / CEO (Jun 2017 - Mar 2018)
- Shopify but for distributors or SMBs with multiple locations and store fronts.
- Created a full stack Ruby on Rails solution based on actioncable and realtime notifications.
- Startup was acquired/absorbed by E-DealerDirect for equity and CTO position.
Arista Networks
Software Engineer (August 2015 - June 2017)
- Member of the customer facing EOS+ team.
- Created POCs and solutions for large fortune 500 companies.
- Developed a multicast monitor with React to visualize live multicast flows through a datacenter. The project was used to bring in business and was displayed at the National Association of Broadcaster conference in Las Vegas.
- Developed applications for the Cloud Vision Portal.
Education
The University of Texas at El Paso (2004 - 2008)
Political Science / History
Notable wins
- Multi-time speaker and hackathon judge · 2018 - present Participating in events sponsored by organizations like Google Developers Group, STTE, Pioneers21 and others.
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RESET Hackathon · Nov 2017
Security Category 1st Place Winner for an Ethereum based voting system we built with Ruby on Rails, Ethereum and Flutter. - Campuslink Hackathon · Sep 2016 Healthcare Category 1st Place Winner for a therapist to patient/parent communication tool called Therapy Buddy.
