# Brandt S.

> Software Engineer at Texas Institute for Electronics

Location: Austin, Texas, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/brandts

I am a UT computer science alumni currently working as a software engineer at National Instruments.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Texas Institute for Electronics
Jan 2026 – Present

### Staff Software Engineer @ NI (National Instruments)
Jan 2023 – Jan 2026 | Austin, Texas, United States
• Implemented a state machine using C++
• Wrote unit tests and integration tests using GoogleTest
• Created C++ clients and interfaces to handle grpc requests

### Growth Team Member @ DevRev
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023
•	Worked with JavaScript to create UI enhancements in the DevRev app while working with the back-end team
•	Implemented design changes on the devrev.ai website using React and CMS tools
•	Devised a new user onboarding strategy with the product management team to increase user activation and retention
•	Revamped online events to increase attendance as well as customer conversion
•	Assisted in college recruitment by talking to students at career fairs and planning on-campus events

### Technical Intern @ DevRev
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
•	Worked with the growth team to build out a lasting community through events focused on developer engagement
•	Created a Slack app to view and manage applicants for an insider program using JavaScript and the HubSpot API
•	Used PipeDream to create Slack workflow steps that listen for event triggers and integrate other APIs 
•	Designed the app workflow in Figma to communicate the overall design to coworkers

### Pod Mentor @ The University of Texas at Austin
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021
I mentor freshmen in computer science throughout their first semester in college.

### Digital Software Engineering Intern @ H-E-B
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Austin, Texas, United States
•	Used Spring Boot to create a service that uses retrieved data to display products a customer had previously bought
•	Created endpoints within this new service to pull from existing REST endpoints with a WebClient
•	Implemented a Redis database to store past customer orders and provide a faster access point
•	Implemented JUnit testing to maintain a reliable, efficient service
•	Implemented a GCP PubSub subscriber to call another service and keep data as relevant as possible

### Co President @ Freetail Hackers
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020
I help oversee the Freetail Hackers organization, and help plan out HackTX

### Corporate Director @ Freetail Hackers
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019
Helped raise over $100,000 in sponsorship money for HackTX 2019. Led a team of 2 others and helped plan HackTX 2019.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Home Depot
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019
•	Designed an internal tool used by managers to leverage data and identify issues in the workflow of engineers
•	Used Tableau to make interactive data visualizations from the GitHub and Pivotal Tracker APIs
•	Created a cronjob using JavaScript and SQL to update a PostgreSQL server with new data pulled from APIs
•	Learned common software engineering processes with Github and Pivotal Tracker


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
The University of Texas at Austin
Jan 2018 – Jan 2022

### High School Diploma in Computer Science
Klein High School
Jan 2014 – Jan 2018


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/brandtswanson

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Source: https://flows.cv/brandts
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/brandts/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-22