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ABOUT ME
Senior Software & DevOps Engineer with over 6 years of experience
Senior Software & DevOps Engineer with over 6 years of experience
Hi I'm Brandon, a Senior Software and DevOps Engineer with over 6 years of experience building production-level software. Currently I work out of the ever-sunny Phoenix, AZ area. My specialty is Cloud Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD, but I have extensive experience writing both front-end UIs and back-end application code.
English
Mountain Time (US & Canada) (-07:00)
Joined November 2019
EXPERTISE
6 years experience
I've been working at companies utilizing the cloud for my entire career. I'm certified as both a Solutions Architect Professional and a D...
I've been working at companies utilizing the cloud for my entire career. I'm certified as both a Solutions Architect Professional and a DevOps Engineer Professional. I've written countless lines of infrastructure-as-code, and have extensive experience designing, building, testing, deploying, and monitoring production-level applications for companies of all sizes from startups to enterprises.
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SOCIAL PRESENCE
EMPLOYMENTS
Senior Software Engineer
Republic Services
2023-02-01-Present
- Designed and implemented several key features end-to-end for a large-scale internal data streaming application.
- Made key ...
- Designed and implemented several key features end-to-end for a large-scale internal data streaming application.
- Made key contributions in a large-scale cloud migration converting an application to multi-region.
- Ensured high code quality and best practices for cloud infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD automation.
- Mentored and collaborated with junior engineers ensuring they were able to effectively contribute to various projects.
Angular
PostgreSQL
TypeScript
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Angular
PostgreSQL
TypeScript
AWS
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Software Engineer
Humu
2022-03-01-2023-01-01
- Delivered several key features involving work on both the front-end and back-end.
- Designed the end-to-end architecture of...
- Delivered several key features involving work on both the front-end and back-end.
- Designed the end-to-end architecture of a completely new subsystem.
- Contributed to the modernization of cloud infrastructure management.
Python
React
Google Cloud Platform
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Python
React
Google Cloud Platform
JavaScript
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DevOps Engineer
Billfire
2021-03-01-2022-02-01
- Responsible for maintaining the core infrastructure for developers to deploy to.
- Worked closely with development team to ...
- Responsible for maintaining the core infrastructure for developers to deploy to.
- Worked closely with development team to ensure timely and error-free deployments.
- Ensured security best practices were followed on the infrastructure level.
TypeScript
AWS DynamoDB
AWS Lambda
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TypeScript
AWS DynamoDB
AWS Lambda
AWS CDK
AWS
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PROJECTS
use-observable-hooksView Project
2025
React hooks for working with RxJS observables.
React hooks for working with RxJS observables.
TypeScript
React
TypeScript
React
aws-instance-infoView Project
2025
Get detailed specifications for AWS EC2 instances, RDS instance classes, and ElastiCache node types.
Get detailed specifications for AWS EC2 instances, RDS instance classes, and ElastiCache node types.
TypeScript
AWS
TypeScript
AWS