About Brian

Brian DeShong is a software engineer and technical leader with 25+ years of experience building products, scaling teams, and shipping software that holds up.

He’s currently at Struck Studio, building and launching startups using Python, TypeScript, React, and AWS. Before that, he was an early Software Architect at Rainforest Pay, helping bring a payments-as-a-service platform to market in Go, TypeScript, and Vue.

He spent more than eight years at ShootProof, first as VP of Engineering (where he grew the team from 4 to 20+ engineers), then as a Principal Engineer focused on deep technical work and new product delivery. Earlier in his career he was VP of Engineering at CrowdTwist, a senior engineer at Yahoo! and Schematic, and spent several formative years at Community Connect Inc. doing both systems administration and software development.

Brian holds a B.B.A. in Computer Information Systems from Baruch College (CUNY) and has spoken at ZendCon, php[tek], and Atlanta PHP on topics from mobile development to AWS architecture.