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About Brian

A millenial entrepreneur in the making

  • 1987-2005

    Bay Area Born & Raised

    Brian grew up in Santa Clara, the son of a mechanical engineer turned software sales executive. Brian excelled in school, but was primarily interested in sports, never really appreciating the technology and entrepreneurial spirite in his own backyard.

  • 2005-2009

    The liberal arts foundation

    Brian spent his four undergraduate years at Dartmouth College in the frigid hills of New Hampshire. Drawn originally by the desire to go skiing after class, his Dartmouth experience included majors in economics and government, and forever shaped his friendships and ambitions.

  • 2009-2015

    Young professional-hood

    After an exhileratingly challenging year as a public school math teacher in Oakland, Brian spent the next 5 years in the corporate comforts of Google and Metromile. Analyzing marketing opportunities, crunching models in Excel and optimizing ad campaigns quickly became second-nature.

  • Fall 2015

    An entrepreneur takes his first leap

    The entrepreneurial itch in SF was too contagious in San Francisco, so Brian waved goodbye to a stable income and benefits and began a 4-month coding adventure with Dev Bootcamp. He is now working on a few side projects and expects to turn one of them into a full-time pursuit in early 2016.

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Projects

What I've been working on so far.

The Puck Times

Concisely curated game-day previews

Ruby Cheat Sheet

A handy reference for web developors

Rent Masters

Empowering Renters in San Francisco

Brian's Developer Blog

Chronicling my first 9 weeks as a developer.

Check out the recent issues below, or click here to see the full archives.

Bootstrap CSS Framework

This last blog post recounts my experience transitioning this blog site from a static CSS structure to one that uses the Bootstrap CSS framework.

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What is Rails? A brief intro to Ruby on Rails

As we wrap up the remote Phase 0 stage of Dev Bootcamp, we'll soon begin the onsite immersion program where we will spend significant time using the web application framework known as Ruby on Rails, or more simply, Rails. Rails is an open-source web application framework originally designed by David Heinemeier Hansson in 2004. What exactly is a web application framework? For starters, we must consider what a web application is.

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Ruby vs. Javascript: Hashes & Objects

This week in Dev Bootcamp was our 3rd week diving deeper and deeper into Ruby. In today’s post, I’m going to attempt to explain the concept of classes, and why they are incredibly useful in any object-oriented programming language (i.e. pretty much all modern programming languages).

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Contact Me

If you'd like to collaborate on a project or simply connect over coffee or a beer, please feel free to reach out to me below.