# Brandon Lara

> Software Engineer

Location: San Jose, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/brandonlara

Backend engineer focused on modernizing systems and building scalable services.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Tenable
Jan 2024 – Present
- Modernizing backend services using Go for dashboards and reporting.
- Writing and tuning complex SQL queries in Postgres against tables with tens of millions of rows.
- Handling database migrations from SQLite to Postgres
- Focusing on Postgres performance optimization (query tuning, indexing, schema improvements).
- Building a sensor proxy service in Go to connect and manage distributed Nessus scanners.
- Modernizing Security Center to next generation vulnerability management software.
- On prem rpm deployment Linux red hat.

### Software Engineer @ Blend
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024

### Associate Software Engineer @ Anaplan
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023
- Implemented highly scalable distributed systems and shared services infrastructure in a hybrid cloud environment using Java 11, Kotlin, Kubernetes, and Docker.
- Utilized data-driven approaches to measure the quality of the platform, security, and observability.
- Upgraded Spring, Hibernate, Tomcat, and other security aspects of the services.
- Improved performance of the service across different APIs and database queries.
- Stack: Java, Kotlin, MySQL, CockroachDB, Nginx, HAProxy, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Git, Junit, Blazemeter, JMeter, Jenkins, Splunk, Grafana, Datadog.


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
California State University - East Bay


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/brandon-lara-23b3a0142
- Portfolio: https://btlportfolio.me

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Last updated: 2026-04-11