Brian Hough
Web2 Web3 Software Engineer Founder at YouTube
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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RockstarBrian Hough is a results-driven technology founder and CEO with a decade of experience scaling product-led startups across sports media, direct-to-consumer platforms, and healthcare. He has built teams from single digits to 200+, managed IPO-ready tech and operational budgets north of $15M, and driven over $100M in e-commerce revenue including multi-million ARR gains through pricing, conversion, and retention improvements. A hands-on engineering leader, he has worked across React, Elixir, Rails, Snowflake and more, and co-created polished.js—contributing styling mixins and documentation to improve front-end ergonomics. He pairs engineering depth with security and compliance expertise (HIPAA, ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR) and spends time advising early-stage founders on balancing product velocity with regulatory risk. Based in Bellingham, WA, he now leads PressBox/Trackside, an AI-enabled, algorithm-free motorsports fan platform focused on trustworthy, personalized content.
11 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (8)
css-in-js10
styles10
javascript10
style-sheet10
javascripts10
front-end-development10
stylesheets10
react4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
styled-components/polished
Nov 2016 - Jul 2022
A lightweight toolset for writing styles in JavaScript ✨
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:59 releases, 17 reviews, 410 commits in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily contributed to styling-related tasks within the `polished` repository, a toolset for writing styles in JavaScript. Their commits focused on adding and modifying mixins for styling purposes, such as creating the `triangle` and `borderColor` mixins. They also updated documentation and test cases, demonstrating a focus on improving and maintaining the usability of the styling library.
cssjavascriptcss-in-jsbabel-pluginstyled-components
bhough/fibre
Mar 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:12 releases, 4 PRs, 65 pushes in 4 months
scaffoldingweb-projectworkflow
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