Brian Vuyk

Brian Vuyk

North Dundas, Ontario, Canada
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About

Technical Lead / Senior Engineer with 15+ years of experience in designing and delivering high-performance solutions in PHP, Node.js and Go. Proficient in Solutions Architecture and leading teams through a product from conception to implementation.

Internally, I've led process improvement initiatives. I've mentored younger developers and helped them develop and track against professional development plans.

Currently highly focused in using Go to deliver microservice and serverless solutions. Also highly experienced with PHP solutions using Drupal and Symfony. Very comfortable working in both AWS and Kubernetes-driven environments.

Experience with both SQL databases (MySQL & PostgreSQL) and noSQL databases (AWS DynamoDB and MongoDB).

Proficient in server management and comfortable working in containerized environments.

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Experience

  • Lime Graphic
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    Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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    Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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    Winchester, Ontario, Canada

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    Winchester, Ontario

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Education

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Licenses & Certifications

Projects

  • Dwell.com

    This was a complex project with many challenges across the board, from inventing a responsive mobile presence to improving UX, all as a lead-in to the main task of moving Dwell off of a SaaS CMS to their own bespoke Drupal 7 implementation. Case study: http://pingv.com/portfolio/dwell

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  • Science & Diplomacy

    The publishers of Science magazine came to us with a challenge: Design and develop a web-based application for a new online journal comprised of long, in-depth articles.

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  • The National Interest

    With an archaic website that was virtually non-functional, The National Interest magazine needed to (re)invent its online presence.

    Our goal was to make a clean, sophisticated site that accurately reflected the paper magazine's quality and intellectual appeal, while increasing its accessibility to a larger audience. The site had to have the gravitas of a leading foreign affairs publication with A-list diplomatic, political and academic thinkers writing its articles. Flashy, pushy, noisy…

    With an archaic website that was virtually non-functional, The National Interest magazine needed to (re)invent its online presence.

    Our goal was to make a clean, sophisticated site that accurately reflected the paper magazine's quality and intellectual appeal, while increasing its accessibility to a larger audience. The site had to have the gravitas of a leading foreign affairs publication with A-list diplomatic, political and academic thinkers writing its articles. Flashy, pushy, noisy approaches used so often in publishing sites just would not do for TNI. We needed something cleaner, simpler, with a bit more elegance.

    Case study: http://pingv.com/portfolio/the-national-interest

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Languages

  • English

    Native or bilingual proficiency

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