Brian Perry

Brian Perry is a founding engineer at Actual AI, where he works on front-end development, user experience, and guardrails for AI-assisted software development. He has more than two decades of experience across software engineering, product development, front-end architecture, and technical leadership.

Perry has held engineering roles at Chapter Three, Pantheon, Bounteous, Breakthrough Technologies, and Rotary International. His Drupal work has included decoupled and headless architectures, design systems, component-based theming, and JavaScript tooling. He has also contributed to Drupal projects including Olivero, Next.js for Drupal, and the Drupal API Client.

A frequent Drupal event speaker, Perry has presented on front-end development, Single Directory Components, design systems, decoupled Drupal, and the Drupal API Client.

Brian is a versatile developer with experience building complex, interactive web applications in support of large-scale localized sites. Recently he has focused his efforts on evolving Drupal front-end development practices, decoupled Drupal, and design systems and has spoken on the topic at various Drupal events. Brian is Drupal 7 and Drupal 8 Triple Certified and loves all things Nintendo.