# Brandon Jimenez > Senior Software Engineer Location: Henderson, Colorado, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/brandonjimenez Passionate about mentoring and managing young talent, JavaScript/Typescript, and leading software teams to success. Seasoned Software Engineer, Project & Team Lead with over 13 years of experience in full-stack development, specializing in building scalable web applications and managing cloud infrastructure. Proven leader with expertise in Node.js, React, Angular, AWS, and GCP, and a strong background in both SQL and NoSQL databases. Adept at leveraging Generative AI technologies to enhance user engagement and streamline processes. Demonstrated success in leading cross-functional teams, mentoring developers, and optimizing performance. Skilled in project management and client relations, consistently delivering innovative solutions and driving project success. Most fulfilled when a part of an amazing company that provides meaningful value, contributing to projects that are larger than life, while being a part of an awesome, culture rich tech team with the ability to "Build, Measure, and Learn" quickly & effectively. Top Skills: JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, OOP, MVC, Restful APIs, High-Throughput Systems, Full-Stack Development, Cloud Infrastructure, Leadership, Mentorship, running technical projects & driving them to success, on time, with a high level of quality and scalability ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ MagicSchool AI Jan 2024 – Present | Denver, Colorado, United States ### Lead Engineer @ Iterate.ai Jan 2020 – Jan 2024 | Denver, Colorado, United States Principal Signals Engineer • Signals Client - Lead/Contributor (TypeScript, React, NextJS) • Signals API - Lead/Contributor (NodeJS, PostGres, Docker, GCP) • Inform / Challenges - Lead/Contributor (React, NextJS) • EC Admin - Contributor (React-Admin) ### Leader of Technical Projects and Teams @ Techtonic, Inc. Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Boulder, CO Provided industry experience and guidance to several teams of junior engineers (apprentices) that had graduated from the Techtonic Apprenticeship Program. Was a mentor to a whole floor of 40+ apprentices while leading and managing multiple projects. End-to-end management lead, demonstrating success for the company through targeted rebuild of Techtonic.com and managing the one of the highest grossing client projects within the organization. Project: Techtonic.com • Marketing Website — Team Lead • Conceptualized and initiated two month aggressive rebuild using Node/Koa, ButterCMS. • Increased site conversions by 4x; increased PageScore by 67% via Lighthouse. • Supervised & accelerated 10+ apprentices while managing two versions of the project. Project: SmartEtailing (SE) • CRM Dashboard & Microservices — Team Lead • Charged to lead project success for Techtonic’s SmartEtailing (SE) client; delivered three additional projects to the Techtonic Sales pipeline through delivery of quality software over 12 months. • Fulfilled four Java/SpringBoot/Elasticsearch microservice backends while overseeing a dynamic team of 10+ apprentices & Junior Software Engineers. ### Scrum Master / Engineer @ Baker Technologies Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Greater Denver Area Technical Scrum Master & Platform Engineer for Baker Technologies • Scrum Master to three project teams using PivotalTracker. • Inspired new ticket writing policies using the Gherkin Language. • Designed & built slack-bot to query and instantly return Customer Data during a time where the CRM would return Customer results within several minutes. Post acquisition by TILT Holdings: • Converted to Engineer after merger to actively maintain legacy microservices built in React + GraphQL, Yii PHP framework, powered by Docker & LAMP stacks. • Fully accountable, top contributor in front-end rebuild on Baker’s customer-facing CRM using Angular 7+ and Laravel PHP framework. ### Backend Contractor @ TradeLanes Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Greater Denver Area Technologies: Node.js, MySQL, Bookshelf.js, HAPI.js • Conceptualized & created “Document Processing API” (Core IP) for the company's founder. ### Independent Contractor / Fullstack @ Self-employed Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Louisville, Colorado Technologies: Node.js, Express, MongoDB, AngularJS, Ionic Framework • Spearheaded MEAN + Ionic Full-Stack Disaster Assessment Dashboard project while leading 3 engineers; delivered in 4 months. ### Director of Learning Operations @ RefactorU Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Boulder, Colorado • Defined the official style guide for the bootcamp’s curriculum. • With the help of the instructor staff, completely reorganized the order of the curriculum using students’ feedback as a primary source of influence. • Deployed the current marketing site. • Created several open source projects, hosted on github. • Manager and team lead to a group of 5 instructors. ### Lead Instructor @ RefactorU Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Boulder, USA Led two cohorts that transformed students into MEAN stack developers within 10 weeks. Continuously improved the course curriculum in collaboration with Instructional Team Leads. Delivered deployment of company marketing site. Developed several open-source modules with students. A personal viewpoint: "Being an instructor was an amazing and rewarding position to hold. I have so much more respect for all of my previous teachers, instructors, and professors from my school days after being in this role. I am very grateful to have been able to share my experiences from my tech career with students and to be able to watch their transformation as they rapidly turned into web developers right before my eyes. Their transformation was truly inspiring to all and it was fulfilling to see so many graduates find meaningful work shortly after the course. The feeling that I have when experiencing the light bulb glowing above a student's head after making something clear to them that was previously an in-the-dark & intimidating concept to grasp is by far my favorite feeling I've had in my whole career." Cool things that I did while I held this position: - Introduced a brand new lecture on authentication using encrypted session cookies. - Introduced a brand new lecture on the basics of unit testing using Jasmine and Protractor. - Released several open source modules on github. ### Co-Founder & Lead Engineer @ Augur Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 | Boulder, CO • Was a key player getting this startup in a position to be acquired in 2016. --- • Was a key player in raising the seed round of funding. • Was key in the solutions used in many areas of the 12+ layered algorithm used to identify devices (Core IP) and create unique IDs for devices observed by Augur powered clients. • Managed first-phase infrastructure using AWS. • Managed second-phase infrastructure using Google Cloud. • Created a globally distributed, load-balanced infrastructure using Google Cloud, reducing service downtime by over 90% in the early stages of the product and provided the ability to process over 300 requests per a second in the later stages of the product. • Decreased deployment time from a manual 6 hour process to a 20 minute scripted, automated process during a scaling pinch point of the product. • Solely created the Augur Android SDK, written in native Android code, used to uniquely identify devices within native clients (customer applications). • Created a fast, asynchronous web crawler that would collect non-personally identifiable data about customers using multiple third-party API services that would complete within seconds. • Co-designed and co-created the data model to store collected user data, originally using DynamoDB/Datastore. • Co-designed and co-created the analytics system used by the company using BigTable. • Co-designed and co-created a distributed, load-balanced device ID graph using Aerospike. • Co-designed and co-created multiple customer facing authenticated RESTful APIs used to provide device IDs and consumer data to paying customers. • Co-designed and launched several iterations of the company’s marketing page. • Co-designed and launched several iterations of the company’s Dashboard SaaS Offering. • Was the primary system administrator and release engineer. • Provided daily customer support through Slack. • Scrum Master and team lead to a group of three developers. ### Web Application Developer @ NagraStar (Dish Network Applications Team) Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Englewood, CO Technologies: Node.js, Backbone.js, Chrome DevTools • Contributed to a team culture that valued quality, robustness, & scalability while fostering innovation the embedded + web application space. • Selected as Lead Engineer on Vevo & refactored application to eliminate memory leaks, stabilizing the application and bringing it closer to a shippable state. • Brought Vevo to complete launch nationwide in April of 2015 for Dish® as the only application to launch on my team during tenure. • Developed internal tooling with Grunt.js to automate deployments, resulting in a 10 minute save per run and improving team velocity, as measured in CARally ticket tracking software. ### Analytics Engineer @ KIXEYE Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 Enjoyed being a part of a great team that specialized in designing & implementing flows for large streams of game data. * Completely revamped the front-end for the internal reporting tool used by executives and managers of the company using Bootstrap and HighCharts. * Contributed to the the analytics aggregation engine, written in Python and built on HIVE, by fixing numerical anomalies, extending the ETL framework to include new aggregations, and refactored the email delivered to executives of the company which detailed the top performance metrics. * Setup cron jobs, managed by Jenkins, to transfers transactional data contained within HIVE to create aggregate metrics within several MySQL tables to be used by front-end report pages. * Abstractly defined the analytics charting templates used to run reports so that developers on the team who were not front-end developers could easily and programmatically create custom reports to be shared with the managers of other teams. * Manager and team lead to a group of 3 engineers. ### Web Developer Consultant for KIXEYE @ iTCO Solutions, Inc. Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | San Francisco Bay Area Contracted my expertise in the web development field for iTCO solutions. Provided frontend development (UI/UX) services, object oriented modularization and refactoring, and wrote ETL scripts to extract game data for internal company reports. Offered a full-time role via Contract Conversion with KIXEYE. ### Lead Developer @ Atnight.com Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Miami, FL Technologies: LAMP, CodeIgniter, jQuery • Took ownership of custom PHP CRM built by previous off-shore Lead Developer. • Built several end-user facing pages, driven directly from CRM API calls. • Managed server configurations, improved and enriched the interactive features, and constantly invented new ways to market nightlife and social events. Responsibilities: * Conjured new ways to engage users to use our services * Fixed AJAX, PHP, and CSS/UI/UX bugs throughout the site * Planned, scoped, and introduced application features Technical Responsibilities: * Created validated, robust, secure PHP forms * Authorize.net integration * Facebook API integration * YouTube API integration * Ajax form submission, validation, animated effects * Database manipulation and maintenance * PSD Design to CSS/HTML ### Web Developer Apprentice @ Freelancer Jan 2004 – Jan 2011 | USA Web Site Development & Design Providing services for: * The development, customization, and extension of Content Management Systems based on the Codeigniter & FuelPHP frameworks. * Custom graphical front ends (themes) for CMSs * Custom webpage layouts with support for jQuery effects. * Database management and manipulation. * Rails based websites and applications. * Sinatra based websites and applications. * Basic Android Application Development ## Education ### Bachelors in Computer Information Sciences University of Florida Jan 2008 – Jan 2011 ### Associate of Arts (AA) in Engineering Santa Fe Community College Jan 2006 – Jan 2008 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jiminikiz --- Source: https://flows.cv/brandonjimenez JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/brandonjimenez/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22