# 👋 Braden Snell

> Software Engineer @ Ramp

Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/braden

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Ramp
Jan 2024 – Present

### Technical Founder @ Zilch
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
- Led all dev work: from architecture to implementation to continuous integration to deployments to database migrations to configuring observability tools to owning maintenance in production.
- Conducted user interviews to determine what should be built and why. Turned conversations into designs into code into real value for folks using the platform.
- Architected and implemented a scalable web socket brokerage system to connect bots.
- Orchestrated payment processing and subscription management with Stripe integration.
- Developed and used GraphQL APIs, REST APIs, and tRPC APIs.
- Learned WebGL and BabylonJS to integrate 3D visuals into Typescript + React frontend.
- Published NPM package game development SDK.
- Watch 3 minute demo of Zilch → https://youtu.be/uAsWdtWx9aE

### Senior Software Engineer @ Microsoft
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
- Spearheaded development of 6 new projects. Laid groundwork so other developers could ramp up quickly with good documentation and well-organized codebases.
- Developed the ability to migrate visualizations from the Azure Portal to Grafana working closely with UX designers to refine reqs, iterate on design, and ensure accessibility.
- Fostered collaborative environment, leading efforts to build team unity through organizing weekly team chats, active encouragement of pair programming when needed, and heading up Azure-wide book club discussions.
- Learned Go while developing plugins for Grafana and provided dev environments powered by Docker and VSCode dev containers so other engineers on team could get up and running quickly with unfamiliar language.
- Collaborated with cross-org / cross-company teams to deliver Azure Managed Grafana.
- Made open source contributions to Grafana to enable Microsoft specific scenarios.
- Pushed back on complex architecture proposals with data to show the sufficiency of more
simple solutions.

### Software Engineer II @ Microsoft
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ Censys
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
- Recruited by former colleague to augment team with frontend expertise.
- Led development of frontend to initial SaaS product release which helped pave the way to a
successful series A funding round.
- Expanded skills from Typescript, React, and NodeJS to make full stack contributions, for
example, by building an innovative database caching solution with Redis and PostgreSQL that
significantly reduced dashboard load times for users.
- Volunteered to learn unfamiliar tech like Helm and Kubernetes to help accelerate deployment of
services on Google Cloud Platform.
- Responsibilities varied from writing HTML and CSS to building Dockerfiles, setting up
Prometheus monitoring, Grafana dashboards, Python scripting, and performance work.

### Software Engineer @ ArborMetrix
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
- Led move from a legacy frontend codebase to TypeScript and React.
- Delivered React Native mobile app prototype.
- Developed Java and NodeJS microservices deployed to AWS.
- Promoted move to GitLab and coordinated an SVN to Git migration.

### Student Software Engineer @ Brigham Young University
Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 | Provo, Utah, United States
- Gained real-word experience as a student with 20hr/wk on-campus job.
- Key contributor on agile development team building internal content management tools with C#,
TypeScript, and Angular.
- Developed Android, iOS mobile app for in-field data collection at archaeological sites.

### Student Software Engineer @ Brigham Young University
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Provo, Utah, United States

### Web Developer @ AboveTraining, Inc.
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | Orem, Utah, United States
- Boosted conversation rate with redesigned course purchase system.
- Developed solutions using JavaScript, ActionScript, PHP and CSS.
- This was my first job in the industry and I'll be forever grateful to the folks who gave me a chance
while still in high school to build some real experience.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
Brigham Young University
Jan 2011 – Jan 2017


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/bradenhs
- Website: https://www.zilch.dev
- GitHub: https://github.com/bradenhs

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Last updated: 2026-03-22