Bryan Hales

Bryan Hales is a Software Developer and Arizona native. His first experience with writing software was as a Boy Scout during his very first merit badge: Computers. Since then, for the past 20 years, he’s been absolutely hooked. He enjoys writing code in whatever language will get the job done best. Lately, that has been a mixture of Javascript, Python, Ruby, C#, Objective-C and the obligatory HTML5/CSS3.

At home, Bryan enjoys playing Minecraft with his 6 year-old son, and has been known to play a game or two of Pretty Pretty Princess with his three daughters. He is expecting a fourth daughter in May. Even with the crazy life of a father and family man, he still enjoys keeping up with the latest and greatest technologies.

Bryan is a huge fan of startup culture. To him, that doesn’t mean staying up all night hopped up on caffiene or getting massive investments from VC firms. It means creating products based on actual customer feedback, not assuming you know all the answers, and iterating quickly. He believes that startups can exist in companies of any size, and not just in The Valley.