Brian Ha

About Brian Ha

Over 10 years of experience leading software engineering teams + projects, many times throughout high growth phases.Handling over 1 million rps for data from many billion dollar businesses.Specialty in distributed, async event-driven systems across multiple language and tech stacks.TripleByte certified generalist software engineer (top companies like Facebook, Apple, Dropbox, Coinbase, Affirm, Palantir, Snap, and Instacart all allowed certified engineers to skip their phone screen interviews)-Technologies:(I have worked with a substantial amount of production code, using all the following!)Java, Kotlin, Python, JavaScript (Node.js, Express.js, TypeScript), Golang, Apache Thrift, JUnit + Mockito, C++Kubernetes, Amazon WebServices - AWS (EKS, SNS, SQS, S3, EC2, DynamoDB, MSK, Lambda, load balancers, WAF), Terraform, TerragruntClaude Code, Gemini Code Assist, GitHub CopilotgRPC, Bazel, Apache Kafka, MongoDB, SQL, Redis, Hibernate, JPA, Maven, Spring Boot, Elasticsearch, GraphQLmicroservices, Datadog, New Relic, GTest, GMock, async events

Experience

1. Senior Software Engineer

   Twilio

   Sep 2025 — Present

   Infra heavy role:Handle massive scale of internal and external requests (up to over 1 million per second).2-3 times faster autoscaling to handle spiky traffic from the largest companies including Fortune 500 (please see customers dot twilio dot com for examples)Currently working on other proactive means to handle such traffic with high availability and zero data loss.Lots of Kubernetes, AWS, load balancers, firewalls, Terraform, Claude Code - and a bit of Golang and Redis.

Education

• University of California, Berkeley

  Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science (EECS)

Skills

• Git
• C
• Jquery
• Html
• Javascript
• Selenium
• Software Development
• Python
• Javaserver Pages (Jsp)
• Maven
• Hibernate
• Enterprise Software
• Product Management
• Mockito
• Perforce
• Junit
• Css
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Java
• Jenkins