Brian Grosso

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Head of Product Engineering @ Leading Fintech
Portugal

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  • Commod
    Technical Advisor
    Commod
    Jan 2026 - Current (8 months)
  • Stealth
    Head of Product Engineering
    Stealth
    Apr 2023 - Current (3 years 5 months)
    • Joined as first employee due to strong belief in company idea • Built landing page and dapp using nextjs, tailwind, dgraph, and deployed on vercel which has processed billions in transaction volume to date. • Core contributor to all smart contracts that underwent several audits without any critical or high findings. • Led development for public launch, including website, marketing, and scaling efforts to support high traffic.
  • Capital One
    Senior Associate Software Engineer
    Capital One
    Apr 2022 - May 2023 (1 year 2 months)
    • Lead all front-end development for a small team building company-wide vulnerability management and cloud optimization platform, from inception. • Created GitHub repository, contributed to designs, wrote all Angular code, deployed, and oversee through pilot. • In order to offer dynamic transformations of data crucial to user requirements, utilized RxJS operators to query for all vulnerabilities on the front-end. • Architected service to send requests in parallel, and present data upon first response. Transformations performed immediately on data when received, and only once per batch. Resulted in a UX where over 140MB of data is retrieved (⅓ of browser memory limit), with only 2s of perceived latency. • Oversaw pod of 4 interns with no e
  • Dottid
    Fullstack Javascript Developer
    Dottid
    Oct 2021 - Apr 2022 (7 months)
    • Led migration of React app to Material-UI v5, debugging dozens of breaking changes such as style engine switch, and rewrote various components. • Owned effort to preview any common file type in browser, via short-lived signed URLs fed into Office Viewer iFrames without affecting bundle size. • Identified critical flaw in GraphQL API configuration causing significant latency, and owned effort to address via debugging DataLoaders. • Implemented major redesign of in-app high stakes deal negotiation interface involving multi-page form using Formik and Yup validation. • Overhauled app-wide side navigation, from click toggle to hover, based on viewport size and other factors, using Context API, in week 2 at company. • Migrated extensively-used
  • BeamQL
    Software Engineer
    BeamQL
    Jan 2021 - Nov 2021 (11 months)
    • Built open-source developer tool to streamline migration to GraphQL by automating configuration, adding a GraphQL layer to any API without interfering with REST endpoints, enabling direct user interaction with database for a more efficient UX and reduced JSON response payloads • Architected Node.js/Express server to take advantage of the middleware design pattern, creating multiple routers and controllers to chain extensive data-wrangling logic together for modularity, readability, scalability, and, along with the support of telemetry technology, efficient debugging • Designed query system to extract metadata from any user-inputted PostgreSQL database to generate complete schema and resolvers for GraphQL implementation, as well as fuel n
  • Open Source
    My Life in Data | Personal wellness monitoring tool
    Open Source
    Jan 2021
    • Rendered myriad user data utilizing Recharts/D3-based visualization to get the benefits of a lightweight, modularized, powerful visualization library along with an intuitive React wrapper to enable interactivity and animation aspects • Implemented SQL database to make relational data accessible and ACID compliant with strict schemas, enabling concurrent connections
  • Open Source
    OpenTelemetry
    Open Source
    Jan 2021
    • Initiated efforts by the OpenTelemetry contributor network to explore the possibility of porting OT’s Node client to Deno, introducing the first telemetry technology to this new runtime and furthering its efforts to become a viable alternative to Node for scaled apps • Investigated, with the support of key contributors at both OT and Deno, including Ryan Dahl, to determine that porting OT.js is not currently viable due to lack of support from Deno, via a native API, to monitor multiple concurrent asynchronous contexts, similar to Node’s async hooks
  • Open Source
    CareerHere | Employment search management application
    Open Source
    Jan 2021
    • Led development of a responsive, performant front-end in React and Redux to enable reusable job modal components within grid-styled UI • Utilized mobile-first development to ensure accessibility on all devices, as well as interfaced with REST API to automate logo retrieval and rendering
  • Open Source
    CalMole | Calendar optimization platform to maximize flow time
    Open Source
    Jan 2021
    • Utilized ChartJS to render well formatted and dynamic calendar content with a React wrapper component only requiring data prop input • Configured authentication and data consent simultaneously via Google Calendar API to retrieve data based and maximize independent work periods
  • Open Source
    Currency Visualizer | Foreign exchange portfolio management platform
    Open Source
    Jan 2021
    • Adopted a mobile-first development approach accompanied by CSS grid and flexbox in order to ensure a consistent UX across all devices and screens • Constructed Redux-based front end following the observer pattern with pure functions to ensure state integrity, and also achieved development efficiency via Redux hooks to eliminate the need to define action creators in advance, as well as Redux dev tools for debugging efficacy
  • North Star Academy Charter School of Newark
    AP Physics Teacher & Curriculum Designer
    North Star Academy Charter School of Newark
    Jan 2019 - Jan 2021 (2 years 1 month)
    • Enhanced student proficiency utilizing technical communication, as well as proprietary data visualization software, improved engagement and educational accessibility through audio recordings of prompts via digital audio editors, and edited video content via web-based video editing software
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    Equity Portfolio Manager
    JBF Capital Inc
    Jan 2016 - Jan 2019 (3 years 1 month)
    • Quantitatively invested $50mm using modeling software and Bloomberg to filter for companies in East Asian markets trading cheaply relative to equity and profits, with algorithms detecting inflections in business momentum, outperforming global value benchmarks and earning CFA charter
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    Smart Contract Engineering Fellowship, Computer Software Engineering
    xMacro
    • Learned and executed whitehat hacking approaches in the Ethereum ecosystem such as re-entry, integer over/underflow, griefing, and flash loans. • Studied and built ERC721, ERC20, DAO/Governance, and Automated Market Maker contracts in a secure and gas-optimized manner. • Performed audits on other smart contracts, providing feedback on security vulnerabilities, Solidity best practices, gas optimizations, and testing.
  • Codesmith
    Advanced Software Engineering Immersive
    Codesmith
    Jun 2021 - Sep 2021 (4 months)
  • University at Buffalo
    Bachelor's degree
    University at Buffalo
    Jan 2013 - Jan 2016 (3 years 1 month)
    • GPA: 4.0 • Honors and Activities: SoM Honors Program, GEICO Achievement Award, NYSSCPA John T. Kennedy Memorial Award, Dean’s List, Nomination for LeBow Analysis Award, A.J. Drexel Scholarship, TKIG
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    SPN DAO
    Dec 2022 - Jan 2023 (2 months)
    • Core contributor to a data DAO deployed on Polygon mainnet. • Empowered users to capitalize on the alternative data phenomenon and monetize their data in a secure, transparent way by joining the DAO. • Built a UX where users upload credit card transaction data, which is immediately anonymized and encrypted with Lit protocol before uploading to IPFS. User then receives a soulbound token, becoming a member of the DAO, and receives MATIC payment whenever an admin user views their data. • Enabled a complete experience by allowing users to leave the DAO at any time by burning their soulbound token, which also unpins IPFS data.
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    de-signature.xyz
    Sep 2022 - Feb 2023 (6 months)
    • Created a service for signing and storing legal contracts as NFTs on the blockchain forever, providing an immutable, permanent public record. • Rendered 1-page legal contracts as the image for ERC-721 token using base64-encoded SVG, updatable only by the parties until it has been e-signed. • Deployed the smart contract on Polygon mainnet to minimize transaction fees; built UI with Next.js and hosted on Vercel to streamline devops. • Example: https://opensea.io/assets/matic/0x1cd82fca72a8c296478649714bb9f7a1bb4c343f/0