Bryan Kreitlow

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

kreitlow@gmail.com (503) 330-0491 Springfield, Oregon linkedin.com/in/bryan-kreitlow-6bb23336

Profile

CTO with 15+ years building and scaling SaaS products. The last seven as technical leader at Huckabuy, an AI-powered SaaS company, before that hands-on engineering leadership at CBT Nuggets. Builds and leads engineering teams with a focus on platform reliability, developer experience, and shipping work that moves product and business goals forward.

Experience

– Present

Chief Technology Officer · Huckabuy, Inc.

AI-powered SaaS · huckabuy.com

  • Manage a team of up to 5 engineers, covering hiring, performance reviews, and personnel development, while setting technical direction across the product organization.
  • Directly responsible for systems architecture, holding stakeholder reviews so architecture and design decisions tracked business needs.
  • 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; serverless edge products on Workers and KV storage (Page Speed, AI SEO) reduce engineering costs and improve scalability.
  • Level up junior engineers into full-stack developers with React, Node.js, and serverless functions.

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Senior Software Engineer / Principal Engineer · Huckabuy, Inc.

AI-powered SaaS · huckabuy.com

  • Top technical owner of product architecture and cloud infrastructure across the Huckabuy software line.
  • Designed and built the Page Speed Boosters product: Cloudflare Edge Workers delivering more than a dozen technical improvements, including universal Critical CSS, that move enterprise sites to passing Core Web Vitals.

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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.
  • Directly responsible for systems architecture, running regular stakeholder meetings to keep architecture and design decisions aligned with business needs.

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Developer Team Lead / Technical Advisor · CBT Nuggets

cbtnuggets.com

  • Led a team of 4 developers within a 30-person development organization, and performed management duties including interviews, performance reviews, and personnel development.
  • Led the charge on moving the platform from C#/.NET to a Node.js microservices architecture, and served on the management team coordinating projects across departments, working directly with sales and marketing.
  • 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.

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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.

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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.

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 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 and delivery planning with product leadership

Education

M.S., Information Systems Management · Walden University

Specialization in Business Information Management

B.S., General Science · University of Oregon

Minor in Business Administration

Outside of Work

Gardener · music maker · orchard enthusiast