Bryan Alger
Startup founder, technical leader and software engineer
- Role
- Principal Software Engineer at Anduril Industries
- Location
- Charlottesville, VA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Bryan Alger
Founder and CEO of Gravitus, a top-rated weightlifting app (4.9/5.0 on the App Store) that helps athletes track and plan their workouts, analyze their performance, grow their lifting community, and expand their fitness knowledge. As a solopreneur, I handle everything from iOS development to backend infrastructure, while collaborating with contractors for design and marketing.I bring extensive experience in high-performance distributed systems and infrastructure engineering. At Meta, Snapchat, and Microsoft, I architected and scaled critical real-time systems, optimized network protocols and APIs, worked on embedded systems, built transcoding pipelines, and developed robust VoIP infrastructure. This deep systems background spans from bare metal firmware development to large-scale distributed architectures, while my current work at Gravitus focuses on iOS (Swift/UIKit) and Django web APIs.My technical leadership experience includes serving as a software engineering manager and tech lead at Meta (formerly Facebook), where I architected mission-critical, high-scale systems and guided technical direction. This diverse background established my foundation for building resilient systems and driving technical excellence. My Marine Corps service further instilled core leadership principles, disciplined execution, and adaptability under pressure.As a solo founder, I\'ve gained hands-on experience in every aspect of building a product from the ground up, from engineering and product strategy to business operations and user growth. This entrepreneurial journey has given me unique insights into the full lifecycle of taking an idea from concept to successful execution.
Experience
Principal Software Engineer
Apr 2025 — Present
Education
Virginia Tech
Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science
2004 — 2009
Skills
- C#
- Python
- Distributed Systems
- C++
- Software Development
- Mobile Applications
- C
- Php
- .net
- Java
- Linux
- Software Engineering
- Swift
- Django
- Ios
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