# Brandon Ayers > Software Engineer Location: Los Angeles, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/brandonayers • Actively seeking remote employment at a company that's solving interesting problems where I can wear many hats. • Experienced writing Go, Python, Java, NodeJS. Always happy to pick up new technologies and languages as needed. • Good software is easy to read, easy to maintain, and easy to expand on. • Good services have structured searchable logs, meaningful metrics, and well tuned alarms. • If you have to do something more than twice, it should be scripted or automated. Copy+Paste is not an ops strategy. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Q Bio Jan 2022 – Present * Wore many hats building out all portions of the backend of our platform for executive and preventative health. * Built out and maintained our application using a modern typed Python setup with pyright and ruff. * Heavily contributed to designing and maintain our AWS infrastructure * Set up and maintained most of our production monitoring using Cloudwatch and Datadog ### Senior Software Development Engineer @ Oracle Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Greater Los Angeles Area • Joined Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) as part of a startup acquisition and experienced first hand the process of transitioning an on-premises single tenant product to a multi-tenant cloud service. • Worked on two different service teams building out critical backend services. OCI Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE) Service Team November 2020 - August 2021 ----------------------------------------- • My team was focused on the management, bootstrapping and maintaining of customer's Kubernetes (k8s) worker nodes. • Helped build the next generation of OKE's service for creating, deleting and monitoring k8s worker nodes. • Worked with customers to help them debug and identify issues as part of on call shifts. OCI Data Science Service Team ----------------------------- July 2018 - October 2020 • Worked with my team building a data science cloud service from the ground up. • Modified, hacked around and wrestled with ways to make open source tools available for customers while keeping the system secure and easy to use. • Contributed heavily to my team's operational tooling, metrics and alarms. • Operational and 24h on-call experience in addition to software development. ### Software Engineer @ DataScience.com Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Culver City, California • Built out the backend of a complex collaborative web app using GraphQL, Node.js, Express, and Docker. • Extensively used relational databases (Postgres, sqlite) to build out our web application. • Made some contributions to our React with Relay frontend. • Also contributed to projects written in Python, Go, and Scala. ### Software Developer @ TrueCar, Inc. Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 Worked as a data engineer using: • Scala • Apache Spark • Worked with both with 'on prem' Hadoop and AWS • Hive • Some Java MapReduce ## Education ### Computational & Systems Biology B.S. in Computational Biology UCLA Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ayersb1 - GitHub: https://github.com/ayersb --- Source: https://flows.cv/brandonayers JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/brandonayers/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22