Curriculum Vitae

Bryan Kreitlow

Chief Technology Officer — SaaS Platforms, Cloud-Native Architecture & Developer Technology

kreitlow@gmail.com (503) 330-0491 Eugene, Oregon linkedin.com/in/bryan-kreitlow-6bb23336 Résumé (short form)

Profile

Technology executive with 15+ years taking SaaS products from architecture to scale — now operating at CTO level across web platforms, cloud-native infrastructure, and data-intensive systems. Builds and leads engineering organizations with a focus on platform reliability, developer experience, and aligning technical investment with product strategy and business outcomes.

Professional Experience

– Present

Chief Technology Officer · Huckabuy, Inc.

AI-powered SaaS · huckabuy.com

  • Manage a team of up to 5 engineers — hiring and interviews, performance reviews, and personnel development — while setting technical direction across the product organization.
  • Ship LLM-powered AI features across numerous software products (LangChain, OpenAI), from architecture through production delivery.
  • Architect and operate cloud-native services on AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and Cloudflare; use serverless workers to reduce engineering costs and improve product scalability.
  • Innovate new products on Cloudflare serverless edge workers and KV storage (Page Speed, AI SEO).
  • Render millions of JavaScript-heavy enterprise pages at the edge, delivered in structured, AI-agent-friendly formats (markdown, flattened HTML) for machine comprehension.
  • Partner directly with the CEO on product strategy and the next-generation product suite.
  • Level up junior engineers into full-stack developers with React, Node.js, and serverless functions.

Stack: React · Node.js · LangChain · OpenAI API · Cloudflare Workers & KV · AWS · Google Cloud Platform

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Lead Developer · Cognitopia, LLC

cognitopia.com

  • Managed multiple projects and timelines, coordinating development effort across design and engineering.
  • Leveraged monitoring technologies and continuous-delivery services (Codeship) to improve release delivery and production stability.
  • Implemented Service Worker caching and CloudFront CDN delivery for significantly faster application performance.
  • Integrated accessibility technologies into multiple products to improve the customer experience.
  • Built reactive web and mobile applications (iOS/Android via Cordova) with MeteorJS; integrated Twilio, Stripe, and Roost services.

Stack: MeteorJS · Cordova · CloudFront · Codeship CI · Twilio · Stripe

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Developer Team Lead / Technical Advisor · CBT Nuggets

cbtnuggets.com

  • Led a team of 4 developers and performed management duties including interviews, performance reviews, and personnel development.
  • Implemented the Learning Management System portal for LTI/SCORM and AICC product lines.
  • Partnered with DevOps to build a scalable, API-driven video encoding pipeline for streaming media.
  • Integrated automated testing into the development process (Selenium, BrowserStack, Mocha).
  • Delivered on a modern platform stack: AWS (SQS, S3, EC2, RDS), MongoDB, RabbitMQ/Socket.io, PostgreSQL, and ReactJS/AngularJS single-page apps.

Stack: AWS (SQS · S3 · EC2 · RDS) · MongoDB · RabbitMQ · Socket.io · PostgreSQL · React · AngularJS

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Web Engineer · Social Communications Company (SOCOCO)

sococo.com

  • Built the usage-statistics and account dashboard system with SQL, PHP, JavaScript, and HTML/CSS.
  • Developed an administration console used by customers and service representatives; coordinated deliverables directly with customer organizations.
  • Worked across development, pre-production, and production environments with automated testing (QUnit, Mocha) and Node.js-based workflows.

Stack: PHP · Backbone.js · Node.js · SQL · HTML5 Canvas · QUnit · Mocha

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Manager, Business Operations · MitoSciences Inc.

abcam.com/en-us

  • Team leader for the implementation of SAP Business One, an enterprise resource planning system.
  • Maintained and redesigned the company website; built web applications on a self-designed MySQL database.
  • Supported hiring — resume screening, interviews, onboarding — and managed distributor relationships and marketing coordination.

Stack: SAP Business One · MySQL · PHP · web application development

Selected Projects

Video Streaming CMS · CBT Nuggets

  • Created, as part of a team, a CMS that supports the delivery and management of streaming training video. Designed RESTful endpoints that deliver content information and securely stream content to a variety of platforms.

LMS Portal — SCORM, LTI, Tin Can API, AICC · CBT Nuggets

  • Implemented a Learning Management System portal with support for SCORM, LTI, Tin Can API, and AICC so learners could train in their preferred environment. Collaborated with customers to ensure features met their expectations for reporting and user experience.

Analytics Dashboard / Cohort Analysis · SOCOCO

  • Processed usage data through a daily ETL cron job loading a data warehouse, improving visibility into user engagement and supporting cohort analysis to identify customer patterns. Built date pickers, flot.js charting, and custom report generation on top of PHP.

Map Builder Tool · SOCOCO

  • Built a full-featured internal tool for designing new virtual office layouts using XML, HTML5 Canvas, JavaScript, and PHP — collaborating with management, customers, and designers around SOCOCO's real-time communication platform.

Account Management Interface · SOCOCO

  • Created a single-page application (Backbone.js/Node.js with PHP) for customers to manage virtual office environments: access control, naming, VoIP integration, password management, templated email delivery, and phone-number validation.

Recommendations

“Bryan is an incredible asset to any product designer. He takes ownership of the projects he works on because he values the success of the company as the priority… He is hungry for the latest technology and knows how to apply it… You'll respect Bryan's work ethic, technical knowledge, and his ability to break down and teach you anything.”

— Joshua Taylor, colleague at Cognitopia

“Bryan is hard working and innovative and works well under pressure. He is focused on the end-user experience to develop a robust and useful platform of apps for individuals with cognitive disabilities.”

— Julie (Furst) Henning, colleague at Cognitopia

Capabilities

Platform Architecture
SaaS platform design · distributed services & APIs · system design and modernization · technical-debt management
Cloud & Serverless
AWS · Google Cloud Platform · Cloudflare Workers & KV · infrastructure automation · cost-aware scalability
Data
PostgreSQL · MySQL · MongoDB · data warehousing & ETL · data access patterns · high-volume application workloads
Delivery & Developer Experience
CI/CD · automated testing · release management · internal tooling · engineering standards
Reliability & Observability
monitoring & delivery stability · performance and CDN strategy · operational resilience
Leadership
engineering-team management · hiring & mentorship · technical strategy aligned to product and business

Education & Certifications

M.S., Information Systems Management · Walden University

Specialization in Business Information Management

B.S., General Science · University of Oregon

Minor in Business Administration

M101JS: MongoDB for Node.js Developers · MongoDB Inc.

Outside of Work

Gardener and orchard enthusiast — a third-acre orchard of 50+ fruiting trees in Springfield, Oregon, practicing small-space orchard culture and forest gardening · home cider pressing and brewing · music maker