# Brayden Paley

> Backend Software Engineer II at Navan

Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/braydenpaley

Hi I'm Brayden, a Backend Software Engineer II at Navan. My background in Electrical Engineering sparked my interest in technology, leading me to pursue a career in software development. I primarily work with Java and also utilize Terraform to manage AWS resources efficiently. I enjoy problem-solving and building almost anything. I love my maltipoo named Lily, and all of Christopher Nolan's films. Let's connect and explore opportunities related to software engineering.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer II @ Navan
Jan 2024 – Present | Palo Alto, California, United States

### Senior Backend Software Engineer @ SkipTheDishes
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | North America
• Elevated courier location tracking data precision from once every minute to once every 5 seconds, and achieved a 27% cost reduction by transitioning a microservice to Quarkus and adopting Kafka over Amazon Kinesis.
• Saved $23.9M annually and reduced the cost per order by 18% by leading a crucial two-phase initiative enabling couriers to accept orders en route to the restaurant and collect from two different establishments before delivery.

### Intermediate Backend Software Engineer @ SkipTheDishes
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | North America
• Achieved $9M in annual savings and reduced undelivered orders by optimizing the delivery process through seamless storage, retrieval, and deletion of delivered food images with S3.
• Identified and rectified a critical race condition, ensuring cost accuracy for couriers utilizing third-party insurance services and eliminated over $100k of overpayments.
• Contributed to the on call rotation resolving over 15 real time production issues and mentored two new engineers to the on call process.

### Backend Software Engineer @ SkipTheDishes
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | North America
• Refactored a legacy API to remove reused code and allowed for circuit breakers to disable specific endpoints in the event of outages or failures, enabling up to 88% of services to continue operation during an outage.
• Provisioned AWS resources using Terraform to ensure efficient and automated infrastructure deployment.

### Software Engineer Intern @ SkipTheDishes
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
• Streamlined a scalable service through the consolidation of courier event systems in Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia by rerouting API calls and refactoring legacy code.
• Reduced the cost of database maintenance by 8% through the efficient planning of Quartz jobs and MySQL scripts to automatically save and delete order objects within relational databases.
• Mentored 6 new employees in the Incubator program by imparting knowledge of the technologies and culture practiced and ensured the successful completion of small projects.

### Data Programmer @ Healthy Child Manitoba
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Winnipeg, Canada Area
• Eliminated 50 hours of manual data entry per year by automating data collection using Python.
• Created the Early Development Instrument report to display over 100 statistics of Manitoba’s youth and optimized government resource allocation using Report Lab, Pandas, and XML.

### Bartender @ Manitoba Centennial Centre Corporation
Jan 2014 – Jan 2019 | Winnipeg, Canada Area


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering
University of Manitoba


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-01