About Premier Code, Inc.

Search at scale

• Builds and maintains Solr/Lucene search indexes that each hold more than 125 million documents.
• Helped design an indexing method that can fully reindex and validate every document in an index in a few hours.
• Designs high-performance indexing pipelines and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions with Spring AI, backed by Solr, Elasticsearch, and OpenSearch on AWS.

Infrastructure and automation

• Designed fully scripted deployments for 300+ servers with Chef and Python, with no manual server configuration.
• Builds on AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, Redshift, Route 53, OpenSearch Service) and runs Linux across co-located and cloud environments with Ansible, Python, and Bash.

Enterprise experience

Before focusing on search, Brian spent 25 years at Texas Instruments, from 1989 to 2014, rising from equipment technician to senior architect:

• Led a team of 15 developers and supported more than 150 internal applications used by people around the world.
• Introduced the Spring Framework to the company, where it became the corporate standard, and taught classes to bring other developers up to speed.
• Built an Oracle-based inventory prediction system that helped cut stockroom inventory from $180 million to under $35 million in one year.
• Worked on a parts-tracking system projected to avoid $7 million per year in new parts cost.
• Was named Employee of the Quarter (Q2 2013) for helping customers and co-workers do their jobs more productively.

He also served as Chief Information Officer at Dragonfly Media, where he built a small data center and Oracle systems serving more than 100,000 users.

Community and teaching

Brian spent years volunteering in the Dallas–Fort Worth developer community. He served as Secretary and Treasurer of the Java Metroplex User Group and as Leader and Advisor of the Spring Dallas User Group, where he gave talks from 2010 to 2013 on Spring scheduling and threading, persistence, MyBatis, Maven, and deploying applications to the cloud.