# Andrew Brindamour > Founding Principal Engineer @ HealthEx Location: Santa Clara, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/andrewbrindamour Experienced software engineer with 12 years in the industry. Strong technical leader and architect with additional skills in project management & Agile development. Passionate about software engineering “the right way” – clean code, encapsulation, proper dependency management, reusable frameworks, unit testing, and code reviews. Worked in multiple areas, including backend, web frontend, and native frontend. Current passion is reactive programming combined with MVVM architecture. ## Work Experience ### Founding Principal Engineer @ HealthEx Jan 2022 – Present ### Consultant Architect @ Clipboard Health Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 Providing advice and coaching to a rapidly growing startup in a number of areas, including microservices, unit testing, JavaScript backend technologies, deployment patterns, and Agile processes. Driving architectural consensus across a highly distributed remote team. Personally involved in building code templates for backend microservices that embody best practices and patterns. ### Distinguished Engineer/Architect @ BlueJeans by Verizon Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 Company acquired by Verizon in May 2020. Continued majority of previous responsibilities across entire Client Team in addition to new responsibilities. Became a key reviewer of all major projects across the entire company, including chairing company-wide Architecture Review Board. Designed client-side adoption of an SFU video architecture. Heavily involved in the design of the next-generation middleware architecture. Strong voice in pushing for transition to microservices, including writing several example services personally. Lead architect for BlueJeans Telehealth, including adoption of healthcare standards such as SMART on FHIR. ### Principal Engineer, Client Team @ BlueJeans by Verizon Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 Broad responsibilities as the senior technical leader and architect across entire Client Team, encompassing Mac, Windows, Linux, Browser, iOS, Android, and other clients. Created shared client code frameworks for both Swift and TypeScript, following a consistent design, enabling most BlueJeans clients to be built on a common base. Established a company-wide standard for web application development, utilizing React, MobX, Jest, Webpack, TypeScript, and MVVM. Designed and led rewrite of both the BlueJeans Browser client and BlueJeans iOS client, using shared code and new architecture standards. Designed and led the creation of BlueJeans Linux Native Client, utilizing Electron, shared code, and web app standards. Provided technical leadership and/or project management for a large number of smaller efforts across the entire organization. Represented client team architectural requirements to other groups in the company. Served on company-wide Architecture Review Board. ### Tech Lead, Mac Native Client @ BlueJeans by Verizon Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Mountain View, CA Led a 3-person team to build a new native MacOS client for BlueJeans. Rewrote majority of BlueJeans functionality in just 6 months of work. New client resulted in significantly higher customer satisfaction scores. Learned and became a strong Swift developer in just a few months. Applied MVVM and reactive programming to create a homegrown framework that served as the foundation of the application’s architecture. Established high technical bar for code reviews and unit testing, with 95% coverage achieved. ### Tech Lead/Manager, Web Meetings @ BlueJeans by Verizon Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Mountain View, CA Promoted to Technical Lead with specific responsibility for BlueJeans’ in-meeting experience, the company’s most visible piece of software, with hundreds of thousands of users per day. Directed 4-person team’s day-to-day efforts, including working with stakeholders to prioritize. Developed a consistent application architecture based on MVVM and reactive programming. Oversaw repeated iterations to improve application UX and measured results with Mixpanel analytics. Took on additional responsibility as the team’s people manager in January 2016. ### Senior Software Engineer, Web Applications @ BlueJeans by Verizon Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Mountain View, CA Worked across all BlueJeans web applications, utilizing a mix of server-side Django Python and client-side JQuery/Backbone JavaScript. Conceived of and led a transition to a completely client-side JavaScript based site, resulting in the almost complete elimination of Django and Python. Led numerous refactoring efforts to correct “startup code” which was pervasive across company. Helped the company grow up by providing a strong voice for consistent process in software engineering, testing, and project management. ### Senior Software Engineer, SP TelePresence @ Cisco Systems Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | San Jose, CA Leadership role formalized as member of Software Architecture team, overseeing code design across the entire product. Direct ownership of multiple critical modules in the product. Worked mostly in the backend, redesigning much of the code into clean, modular subsystems that can be maintained and tested in isolation. Included efforts to move to a message-driven architecture. Helped launch an initiative to create the next-generation version of the product which combined multiple Cisco technologies and supported a wide range of scale from a single small box to many high-powered servers. ### Software Engineer, SP TelePresence @ Cisco Systems Jan 2009 – Jan 2012 | San Jose, CA Leader on a large team developing a service provider-oriented platform for providing a Cisco TelePresence based video conferencing service. Worked at all layers of the application, including UI, API, data persistence, and call routing, utilizing Java and open-source Java frameworks. Used Agile/Scrum development methodologies and helped define the Agile process. Evangelist for clean code and good design through unit testing, creating reusable frameworks, maximizing existing framework usage, creating extensible architectures, and static analysis. Helped design and implement both the web UI and the SOAP APIs available to external clients. ### Software Engineering Intern @ Adobe Jan 2007 – Jan 2007 | San Francisco, CA Worked on prototyping a new product for Adobe's hosted office tools platform, Acrobat.com. Worked as a member of a three-person team to investigate the right feature set. Product eventually became Acrobat.com Tables. ## Education ### ScB in Computer Science Brown University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/andrewbrindamour --- Source: https://flows.cv/andrewbrindamour JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/andrewbrindamour/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12