Brian Feister

About Brian Feister

Building Meet Near Me to help publishers, newsletters, and community organizers boost engagement among subscribers with more relevant local event recommendations. Technology is always changing, but amidst this flux, the art of working with people is timeless. I\'ve had the privilege of not only working with fascinating technology, but more importantly, working with amazing people. I see this as the true and lasting value of my work — relationships that are built while working together toward a shared vision. I strive to make the world a better place by meaningfully connecting with and helping peers, all while building products that affect positive change in the world and the people who use them.

Experience

1. Technical Lead, Composable Commerce (Lmts)

   Salesforce

   Nov 2022 — Present

   Technical Lead for PWA Kit (Composable Storefront), a Node / Express / React framework for SSR Salesforce Commerce / E-commerce storefronts that served 4.15 billion page views over the 2023 holiday season, enabling high availability retail use cases (29 of the 30 top retail brands in the world use Commerce Cloud)• Guided team through 350% increase in platform adoption in 12 months, with accompanying customer needs, feature requests, and deeply technical architectural challenges• Delivered innovative feature work on framework extensibility, reducing total cost of project ownership to customers by 70%• Advanced Salesforce \"AI + Data + CRM\" charter by delivering groundbreaking AI codegen functionality, which was featured as Dreamforce keynote• Technical advisor and mentor for engineers implementing websites including Marmot.com, BathAndBodyWorks.com, Adidas.com, JoAnn.com, Bulgari.com, Loewe.con, Yeti.com, Carters.com, SaksFifthAvenue.com, Nintendo.com/jp, Duluthtrading.com, Elfbeauty.com, Sweatybetty.com, Vineyardvines.com• Inform and guide VP+ level technical product direction, lead innovation, help drive the roadmap (as a developer experience product), and act as a change agent in a highly competitive technical space• Collaborate across a massive organization and break down working group silos to synthesize a unified technical strategy and cohesive direction • Mentor a growing team of 11 engineers, 4 of whom were promoted under my leadership• Facilitate best practices for processes and team work norms and foster a culture where people can do their best work

Education

• University of Delaware

  Philosophy, Japanese

  2001 — 2005

Skills

• User Experience Design
• Photo Editing
• Digital Media
• Graphic Design
• Branding & Identity
• Php
• Image Manipulation
• Html
• Corporate Branding
• Illustration
• Restful Webservices
• User Interface Design
• Web Design
• Typography
• Web Development
• Backbone.js
• Ajax
• Interaction Design
• Javascript
• Html 5
• User Experience
• Illustrator
• Photoshop
• Angularjs
• Node.js
• Jquery
• Automation
• Web Applications
• Commercial Photography
• Indesign
• User Interface
• Agile Methodologies
• Logo Design
• Web Standards
• Css
• Photography
• Brand Development
• Git
• Information Architecture
• User Interface Development