# Brandon P.

> Senior Software Engineer at Skillsoft

Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/brandonp

Senior software / data engineer with experience working on data analytics, marketing automation, & educational technology platforms.

Interested in data (platform) engineering & distributed systems.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Skillsoft
Jan 2023 – Present | Nashua, New Hampshire, United States
Team: Data Engineering & Automation

### Software Engineer II @ Klaviyo
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Implemented SSO with JIT provisioning via SAML 2.0, allowing users to login with an IdP (e.g. Okta).
- Unified login across Klaviyo & external services (Klaviyo Community + Academy) with SAML 2.0, boosting registration by >35%.
- Optimized MySQL query patterns by migrating reads to replicas, refactoring, and detecting anomalies, lowering data volume & CPU usage.
- Created authentication layer for Klaviyo V3 developer-facing APIs, enabling secure access.
- Coordinated & worked on Python 2/3 + Django 1/2 version upgrades for increased reliability.

Team: Application Security

### Software Engineer II (Data Engineer) @ Teikametrics
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Decoupled data ingestion from monolith, achieving 300K daily messages and faster integration time for Amazon & Walmart marketplace/seller APIs.
- Built ELT pipeline from data lake to Snowflake, enabling analytics & real-time bidding ML models.
- Wrote Scala library for managing JDBC connections to Snowflake utilizing HikariCP, simplifying development.

Team: Infrastructure

### Software Engineer @ ListenFirst
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | New York, New York, United States
- Integrated social media APIs (e.g. Twitter Ads) into a business-critical, distributed data ingestion system, processing millions of events into the data lake daily.
- Constructed dimensional models for UGC performance via incremental, batch ETL pipeline in Redshift, generating >250 million facts.
- Created data marts (e.g cross-platform aggregates) in Redshift tracking >$1 billion of social advertising spend, served with Ruby on Rails.
- Performed ad hoc tasks such as querying SQL data stores and reprocessing Kafka backups from an S3 data lake.

Team: Data Ingestion / Backend


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
Stonehill College


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/bkpowers
- GitHub: https://github.com/brandon-powers

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Last updated: 2026-03-31