Brian Dainton

About Brian Dainton

Entrepreneur in Austin, TX with a passion for turning ideas into products. Always hustling.Founded Mass Relevance (https://massrelevance.com), then merged with Spredfast in 2014. Sold to private equity in 2018, then merged with portfolio company Lithium to create Khoros. Led the company through countless challenges in every stage as we grew from 3 to 1500+ employees worldwide.Historically, I\'ve recruited top engineering talent to build teams that ship product. Unofficially, I\'ve been the company cheerleader, an incessant high-fiver, and a cheese-mover. Trilogy alum born and raised in Chicago, IL. Computer Science at UIUC.After 25+ years of slinging code and running dev teams, I\'m loving life as an Engineering Leadership Coach. Through coaching and creating video content, I hope to foster a generation of compassionate and capable dev leaders.Fun stuff: https://verkout.com, https://airfryme.com, https://tulaga.comLover, fighter, hustler, husband, father. Poker, golf, homebrews, fitness. Not necessarily in that order.

Experience

1. Founder

   Brian Dainton Leadership Llc

   Feb 2021 — Present · Austin, TX, US

Education

• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  BS, Computer Science

  1993 — 1997

Skills

• Ruby on Rails
• Jquery
• Web Applications
• Agile Methodologies
• Mobile Applications
• Cloud Computing
• Software Design
• Javascript
• Cassandra
• Scalability
• Software Engineering
• Git
• Rest
• Java
• Ruby
• Software Development
• Start-Ups
• Enterprise Software
• Distributed Systems