Hi, I’m Bryan.

I’m a software engineer in San Francisco. I like turning an idea into something people can use.

Projects

Website creator · 2023 – present

bankrewards.io ↗

A bank, credit-card, and brokerage bonus comparison platform, built end to end.

The SvelteKit site runs on Cloudflare Workers and D1, with Payload CMS and an automated offer pipeline. An LLM-agent stage continuously re-verifies offers against banks’ live pages. All on a $5/month Cloudflare subscription.

Most people have no idea how many bank bonuses are out there. I wanted to make them easy to find.

TypeScriptSvelteKitCloudflare Workers / D1Payload CMSPlaywrightPostHog

bankrewards.io homepage with featured offers from Moomoo, Chime, and Capital One Savor

50K+monthly visitors

4M+requests served every 30 days

$500K+estimated value of bank bonuses users have signed up for through our site

bankrewards.io bank bonus offers page with filterable offers from Chime, SoFi, and KeyBank — Bank bonus offers, filterable by fees and requirements.

bankrewards.io credit card offers page comparing the Chase Sapphire Preferred, Capital One Savor, and United Explorer — Credit card offers, with bonuses, fees, and perks compared.

bankrewards.io blog with guides on bank bonuses, credit cards, and personal finance — Guides and deep dives on the blog.

Finance calculators

Built into bankrewards.io to help people compare financial decisions.

California Buy vs Rent

Buy-vs-rent math tuned for California taxes and housing costs.

California has rules like Prop 13 and rent control that national calculators ignore. I wanted to account for them.

Try the calculator ↗

Job Offer Comparison

Compare job offers across locations, accounting for taxes, cost of living, equity, and vesting to see what each offer is worth where you’d live.

I built the first version in 2021 to compare my own offers on cost of living and taxes.

Try the calculator ↗

Financial Independence

A FIRE calculator to explore your path toward financial independence and retiring early.

I wanted to play with the math of financial independence myself.

Try the calculator ↗

2022

Noncents ↗

A card game about outsmarting others with trades and investments. Built with fellow UW students, it teaches market and personal-finance basics through play. I worked on the Next.js site, including the how-to-play guide and ordering.

We wanted a fun game that would get people interested in finance and financial literacy.

BACKEND LEAD · FALL 2021 – SUMMER 2022

Cledge

I led backend development for Cledge, a startup built by UW students working to make college admissions counseling accessible to everyone.

We partnered with OpenAI before ChatGPT launched, with a goal of giving every student their own AI college counselor.

The team went on to win the $25,000 grand prize at the 2023 Dempsey Startup Competition ↗.

University of Washington · Research

ASL-STEM ↗

I worked on ASL-STEM at UW under Professor Emeritus Richard Ladner.

A community-built dictionary of American Sign Language vocabulary for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. It helps Deaf students and scientists communicate about technical concepts that lack widely established signs.

ASL users can share signs for the same concept across regions, helping the community develop shared vocabulary and making STEM education and careers more accessible.

The collection now holds 8,721+ STEM terms and 3,265+ community-contributed sign videos.

About the project ↗

ASL-STEM homepage with search and six STEM subject categories — Find signs by subject or search.

Mathematics sign page showing an ASL video, alternative submissions, and the term’s definition — A sign video, definition, and community submissions.

Tally Diary ↗

A diary app for iOS, Android, Windows, and Web with 5,000+ downloads. Built as a React PWA, it stores diaries in personal cloud storage under password protection.

I wanted a diary that kept everything in your own Google Drive and included the paywalled features of other diary apps for free.

Triangul8

A two-player strategy game in the spirit of chess and checkers. Players take turns placing triangular tiles, aiming to claim all three corners of a larger triangle. I worked on the Unity port for iOS and Android. Featured by GeekWire ↗

I wanted to make the board game accessible to more people by bringing it to their phones.

Experience

CRUSOE

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2025 – Present

Founding engineer of Managed Orchestration. Launched Managed Kubernetes and Managed Slurm, building the Kubernetes control plane, Vault certificate management, and fleet-wide patching.

I work on internal bare-metal Kubernetes clusters. Previously, I load-tested the control plane to find where massive VM provisioning would break across compute, storage, and networking, finding limits in all three.

CRUSOE

Software Engineer

Sep 2022 – Jan 2025Engineer I → II · promoted Jan 2023

One of the first 12 engineers on Crusoe Cloud. Built API Gateway routes, permissions, and quotas in Go; shipped Instance Templates, Bulk VM Creation, and core infrastructure APIs.

Built observability foundations and delivered a zero-downtime migration of every API and database to enable multiple projects per organization.

Crusoe modular data centers (MDUs) with service trucks and a crane — **Visiting Williston, North Dakota.** A trip to see Crusoe’s modular data centers (MDUs) and Digital Flare Mitigation work firsthand. Across the DFM program, Crusoe reported avoided emissions in 2024 equivalent to taking over 300,000 cars off the road for a year.

My visit to the Williston site, wearing protective gear beside the gas flare — **Visiting Williston, North Dakota.** A trip to see Crusoe’s modular data centers (MDUs) and Digital Flare Mitigation work firsthand. Across the DFM program, Crusoe reported avoided emissions in 2024 equivalent to taking over 300,000 cars off the road for a year.

Internships

Microsoft · 2020, 2021
Software Engineer Intern. Built distributed analysis tooling for Azure Front Door, Microsoft’s global edge network used by services including Office 365, Bing, and Xbox. Also built IPv6 VM auto-registration for Azure Private DNS.
Salesforce · 2019
Software Engineering Intern. GitHub sync across 300+ projects and company-wide accessibility testing.
Expedia · 2018
High school apprenticeship in software development. Built an employee badging and custom awards system.

Education

University of Washington

B.S. Computer Science · Minor in Business Administration (Entrepreneurship)
2018 – 2022 · Direct admit, Paul G. Allen School

Teaching Assistant for Distributed Systems, Computer Networks, Software Design, and Introductory Seminar.

With my friend and Dubs at the University of Washington columns — With Dubs and my friend at UW.

Student teams

Washington Hyperloop

Controls Lead

UW’s student team designing and building high-speed pods for SpaceX’s Hyperloop competition. The team has since shifted to building tunnel-boring machines for the Not-A-Boring Competition as Washington Tunneling.

Washington Hyperloop controls dashboard on a monitor — The controls dashboard.

Husky Robotics

Business Lead · Software Subsystem Member

As Business Lead, I raised a then-record amount of funding for the team. On the software side, I created the current iteration of mission control for the Mars rover. Watch the team’s 2026 System Acceptance Review walk through mission control, the web GUI for the Daedalus rover, starting at 4:00.

With the Husky Robotics Mars rover and its robotic arm — With our Mars rover.

Tools I work with

GoTypeScriptKubernetesSvelteKitReact / Next.jsCloudflare Workers & D1Payload CMSTerraformHashiCorp VaultPlaywrightPostHogOpenTelemetry

Accomplishments

2nd Place, Crusoe Hackathon (May 2026) — Chrome extension that filters content on any web page using user-defined criteria, built for the company-wide managed inference hackathon.
3rd Place, Crusoe Hackathon (November 2023) — Serverless GPU functions project, built for the company-wide hackathon.
Best Sustainability Project, Caltech Hackathon (2020) — ecoBay, a browser extension that automatically finds local alternatives to products you’re shopping for online, helping reduce shipping emissions.
Winner of 3 awards at LA Hacks and an award at HackCOVID 2 — StemSigns, a collaborative ASL video dictionary for STEM vocabulary.
1517 Grant Winner (2020) — orderstatus.tv, with a TV display of upcoming orders for businesses and live status updates and notifications for customers placing in-person orders.
2nd Place, Terminal Global Championship, US West Coast (Correlation One × Citadel, 2021) — A coding competition where teams write algorithms that play a strategy game against one another.
3rd Place, Terminal Live UW (2019)

Outside of work

Biking

My roommate and I each won an e-bike voucher in Ava Community Energy’s raffle. I’ve been riding pretty much every day since, whether I’m commuting or running errands.

My Aventon Abound SR e-bike parked at a bicycle rack — My Aventon Abound SR.

Skiing

I got into skiing a few years ago and mostly taught myself with a friend, YouTube, and a lot of falling.

Travel hacking

I like finding deals that make travel more affordable, and write about them on the bankrewards.io blog. They’ve helped me visit these places so far:

Iceland
Spain
Portugal
Japan
Thailand
Singapore
Malaysia
Ireland
Switzerland
Germany

Learning Japanese

I studied a bit of Japanese in high school and have picked up where I left off in the Genki textbooks. I’m around N4/N5 level and still learning.