# Brandon Goren

> Software Engineer

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/brandongoren

Mission driven, front-end focused Staff Engineer

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Clay
Jan 2024 – Present | New York City Metropolitan Area

### Founding Engineer @ Societal Systems
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024
- Architected our primary application from scratch - a full-stack Typescript application powered by NextJS and Pothos/GraphQL with full end-to-end type safety that allows attorneys, filers, and courts to file financial accountings for probate/guardianship/conservatorships
- Set up automated linting, type-safety, set-up scripts, CI, and Storybook to improve developer experience
- Mentored and up-leveled other engineers in front-end design patterns, Typescript,  and GraphQL API design
- Designed, implemented, and documented an API/website that allows a third-party's users to import their bank transactions outside of their primary website and then import their data using Plaid, Zodios, BullMQ, and NextJS. Currently being used by Cook County, Illinois.

### Staff Software Engineer @ Arcadia
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023
Founding member and technical lead of the front-end-focused team of Arcadia’s Arc data platform. 
- Set the standard across the team for code quality, test coverage, and code review.
- 97-100th percentile in "code impact", "PR throughput", and "PRs reviewed" at Arcadia from April 2021 to April 2023.
- Worked cross-functionally to plan, design, and execute https://arc.arcadia.com, our developer console for the platform, using Typescript, ReactJS, and Ruby GraphQL.
- Architected an application that a user can use to connect their utility credentials using ReactJS, TRPC, and XState. Owned the technical planning, QA plan, and testing strategy. Onboarded my team and set up best practices for several new technologies.
- Created a shared package for local development/building based on react-scripts using Vite that's used internally in the majority of our front-end applications.
- Directed a team of contractors that built a third-party application on top of the Arc API, https://brightenenergy.arcadia.com, architecting the front-end, performing code-review/pairing, and up-leveling engineers. 
- Member of the Enterprise Technical Steering committee.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Arcadia
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Washington D.C. Metro Area
Shifted across a few squads, mostly focused on consumer-facing experiences across Arcadia
- Technical lead on our acquisition funnel in 2020/2021, powered by ReactJS, and NextJS.
- Launched several new products in our acquisition funnel, including a flat rate subscription, utility-consolidated billing, and several full redesigns of the funnel.
- Improved our product modeling so new experiences in our acquisition funnel could be launched in under a day.
- Proposed and implemented an API migration for our marketing website, https://arcadia.com. Moving it from Prismic's GraphQL API to its Javascript API.

### Software Engineer @ Arcadia
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020
Started off on the Utility Data squad, transitioned to Front-end in December 2019
- Designed and implemented web scraper lambdas in Python using Request, Beautiful Soup, and Selenium. By the end of my tenure, there was a 50% chance a scrape request went to a scraper I was the primary developer of.
- Conceived and developed several internal tools to increase developer productivity, including a visualizer for data, the ability to run code without requiring cloud resources, and the ability to run tests parallel, as opposed to serially.

### Application Developer @ Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Washington D.C. Metro Area
- Designed and implemented several internal and external applications using a variety of technologies, including Python, Django, ReactJS, and SASS. These included election night reporting, activist tools, and a custom CMS that allowed our digital team to spin up customized websites without requiring developer resources.
- Reviewed code with team members in order to increase its quality and efficiency.

### Software Consultant @ Macedon Technologies
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Reston, VA

### Software Engineering Intern @ Vintage Software
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | St. Louis, MO
Developed a customer service management website using the ASP.Net Framework, specifically utilizing HMTL, CSS, C#, SQL, and Angular JS. Implemented new features and fixed several bugs in the developmental branch of Vintage Software's latest project.


## Education
### Computer Science in Economics, Psychology
Washington University in St. Louis
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016

### Regents Diploma Advanced Distinction and Honors
Smithtown High School West
Jan 2008 – Jan 2012


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/brandon-goren-3830b483

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Last updated: 2026-03-23