Welcome to bryan.engineer
A new home for engineering notes, hardware builds, founder thinking, and the messy middle of shipping software.
I’ve been meaning to do this for a long time.
For the better part of a decade I’ve been writing iOS apps inside someone else’s product roadmap — first at agencies, now on Paramount’s Core Architecture Team (CAT), shaping the platform that ships live video to millions of devices. The work I’m proudest of, though, often happens off-hours: building a custom PCB for the workshop, prototyping a Nedron Labs idea on a Friday night, untangling a memory leak just because it offended me.
This site is the place I write it down.
What you’ll find here
Engineering deep-dives. SwiftUI internals, iOS performance, video pipelines — the kind of post I wish I’d had when I was struggling with the same thing.
Hardware build logs. ESP32 sensor networks, custom enclosures, the failure modes nobody documents. If you’re a software engineer who’s intimidated by electrons, this is for you.
Founder notes. What I’m learning building Nedron Labs, and why I think engineer-founders matter more than ever.
Architecture & leadership. How I think about scaling teams, code review, and the long arc of an engineering career.
Why now
The honest answer: AI changed what “shipping a website” costs, and I no longer have an excuse to put it off. The other honest answer: I’m tired of my best thinking living in private Slack threads and group chats.
If you find any of this useful — or annoying in an interesting way — say hi.