Hi, I'm Brian Nystrom
Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience designing and building production-ready software. This site showcases selected personal projects and work from my career.
Latest Posts
From Apprentice to Senior Engineer: 10 Years Later
I wrote many of the posts on this site during my software engineering apprenticeship. It’s been about a decade since then, where did the time go?
Brian Nystrom
Pairing Tour: Day 8
The final day of the pairing tour, styling Android layouts in XML and learning to handle UI across varying screen sizes and orientations.
Brian Nystrom
My Apprenticeship
Pairing Tour: Day 7
Jumping into Android development paired with a Bluetooth device — learning to test with Robolectric and Mockito, and getting introduced to Screaming Architecture.
Brian Nystrom
Pairing Tour: Day 6
Back to CoffeeScript, working on date-based user redirects and upgrading a dependency — a reminder that keeping up with dependencies has a cost.
Brian Nystrom