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Brian Frisch
Director-level engineering leader specializing in high-scale cloud platforms
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Engineering leader and player-coach with a long tenure leading 5 teams/17 engineers, combining organizational leadership with hands-on SQL, architecture, and production incident work. Particularly notable for shipping AI-powered lead engagement systems like an intelligent voice agent, while also driving operational improvements such as release cadence standardization, team restructures, database migrations, and major rules-engine performance gains.
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Key Strengths
- Led 5 teams and 17 engineers, including managing another manager
- Strong cross-functional execution with engineering, QA, and product
- Improved release predictability by instituting a 4-week release cadence
- Restructured teams multiple times over 10 years to handle attrition and business changes
- Hands-on technical leadership in database and architecture work
- Successfully migrated 4 databases from PostgreSQL to SQL Server within production window
- Designed data structures and SQL for a revamped rules engine
- Performance-focused systems thinker who simplified and accelerated complex rule processing
- Built and led AI voice-agent workflows for lead qualification and routing
- Pragmatic product judgment balancing speed, reliability, and iteration
Reference Highlights
- strong engineering leader
- led over 25 engineers across numerous products
- built broader team knowledge across products
- improved team flexibility amid shifting priorities
- ensured clear understanding of priorities
- strong execution and delivery focus
- exceptional database expertise
- highly valuable technical resource
- hands-on technical guidance
- improved implementation decisions to avoid performance issues
- effective AI/LLM performance problem solver
- architectural thinking
- strong search optimization design
- organized and agenda-driven in architecture discussions
- helped teams reach solutions quickly
- simplifies complex workflows
- customer-oriented problem solving
- strong partnership with product
- raises the quality of product requirements
- helps stakeholders understand tradeoffs
- adapts well to changing executive priorities
- committed to distributed teammates
- works tirelessly across difficult time zones
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