B-Hash

My name is Brian 'B-Hash' Hayashi. I'm a full stack software engineer who leans frontend, based out of Los Angeles. I've spent the past couple of years working as the founding engineer at a start-up called StartPlaying.

As a founding engineer, I got to set up a lot of the foundations for the codebase and designed many of the components and pages. I still have a soft spot for design and I love collaborating with designers and product teams to make a feature come to life! (It also probably helps that my wife is a product designer).

Most of my experience is in web development with JavaScript or more specifically TypeScript. I've built various apps using React, NextJS, GraphQL, Prisma, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB.

Outside of Coding

I'm half Japanese and half American. After graduating from Carnegie Mellon University with a degree in Biology, I pursued a PhD in Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Michigan. I left to go work in the film industry in Los Angeles. I've worked on various films, TV shows, music videos, and commercials. Eventually, I worked as a Production Coordinator at Conde Nast Entertainment - I even got to be in some of the videos!

I love cooking (I make a mean carbonara pasta) and I love learning languages. I can speak Japanese somewhat conversationally and I know a few words in Spanish, Korean, French, Italian, Ukranian, and Russian.