Brian Hyun
Software Engineer II and team lead at Stackline, building Ad Manager, a multi-retailer ad intelligence platform for campaign analytics, optimization, and audience workflows.
I work across product, frontend, data systems, infrastructure, and observability, with recent focus on advertising data platforms, OLAP modeling, and AI-assisted analytics.
Blog
2026-06-28
A record of the year I learned to program and the course that changed everything.
Work
StacklineMar 2025 – Present
Software Engineer II, Team Lead
Leading a 4-engineer team on Ad Manager, owning product direction and technical execution across customer-facing workflows, canonical ad data models, observability, and an MCP semantic layer for natural-language campaign analytics.
Software Engineer I
Led end-to-end development of Ad Manager from zero to MVP in 3 months, building across Next.js, TypeScript, Shadcn UI, AWS ingestion systems, GitLab CI, CDK, and data pipelines processing 100M+ daily ad records for 50+ brands.
Pangea LaboratoryJun 2021 – Mar 2025
Software Engineer
Continued development of a laboratory information system for accessioning, processing, reporting, authentication, role-based access, and operational dashboards.
Web Developer
Built a React and FastAPI LIMS platform for clinical lab accessioning and reporting, replacing a third-party vendor system and saving roughly $300,000 per year in licensing fees.
Jr. Web Developer
Developed internal order and warehouse management systems and automated operational workflows for lab and e-commerce teams.
myDNAge, Epimorphy LLCApr 2021 – Jun 2021
Web Developer
Redesigned and developed the customer-facing e-commerce site, increasing sales by 20% and SEO metrics by 25%.
Projects
- Wikipedia Network Graph — An app that visualizes the network of Wikipedia pages connected by hyperlinks. Create your own network by selecting a topic.
Education
University of Southern California
B.A. in Cognitive Science, Summa Cum Laude
Accolades:
- Invited Member of Phi Beta Kappa
- Rose Hills Scholar
- National Impact Service Grant recipient
Readings
- The War Below by Ernest Scheyder
- The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI by Ray Kurzweil
- Exhalation by Ted Chiang
- Freefall by Joseph E. Stiglitz
- The Age of Cryptocurrency by Paul Vigna and Michael J. Casey
- Consequences of Capitalism by Noam Chomsky and Mary Waterstone