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
Stackline
Software Engineer II, Team Lead (Feb 2026 – Present)
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 (Mar 2025 – Feb 2026)
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 Laboratory
Software Engineer (Jun 2024 – Mar 2025)
Continued development of a laboratory information system for accessioning, processing, reporting, authentication, role-based access, and operational dashboards.
Web Developer (Oct 2022 – Jun 2024)
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 (Jun 2021 – Sept 2022)
Developed internal order and warehouse management systems and automated operational workflows for lab and e-commerce teams.
myDNAge, Epimorphy LLC
Web Developer (Apr 2021 – Jun 2021)
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
Tools
TypeScript, React, Next.js, Python, FastAPI, AWS, Apache Doris, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Docker, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Sentry, Mixpanel, Prometheus, Grafana, Auth0, Claude Code, AWS Bedrock, MCP
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