Brendan McLoughlin is a Senior Principal Engineer at CarGurus, where he reduces friction between technical capabilities and customer needs. With over a decade of experience in web technologies, he combines deep systems thinking with hands-on problem solving to help teams navigate and debug distributed systems at scale. As part of CarGurus' Technical Leadership Team, he helps define engineering standards across a 350+ engineer organization while staying close to the code. Previously at Bocoup, he contributed to major open source projects including Ember Data. His expertise spans cloud infrastructure, web security, and complex system design, with a particular focus on helping teams navigate and debug distributed systems at scale. Brendan is passionate about knowledge sharing and regularly authors technical content to help engineers understand complex systems.