# Brendan Bowidas > Staff Software Engineer at Eventbrite Location: New Haven, Connecticut, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/brendanbowidas Full Stack Software Engineer with years of experience delivering robust, scalable software. History of learning quickly, getting up to speed with new technologies and codebases, and growing to become a top contributor and leader. Strong interpersonal skills and experience working collaboratively with clients and other engineers, as well as mentoring fellow teammates. ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ Eventbrite Jan 2024 – Present ### Senior Software Engineer @ Eventbrite Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 ### Senior Software Engineer @ Bloom Growth™ Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 ### Senior Software Engineer @ FanAI Inc. Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Remote Contributed to the development of a large data-driven, React/Typescript-based sponsorship marketplace. Our platform helps rights holders monetize their fans, and brands optimize their sponsorship spend, by delivering actionable audience insights and offline attribution to drive improved sponsorship outcomes. Implemented an API mocking system that allowed the front end team to continue building out features while the server-side work was still in progress. This led to an immediate increase in sprint velocity for our team. Documented our reusable component library with Storybook, allowing the team to quickly identify which components are available to solve a given problem. Mentored teammates via pair programming sessions and code reviews. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Green Check, Inc. Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | North Haven, CT Led the migration of our existing Angular UI to React, resulting in an increased feature delivery velocity. Developed a hands-off, automated logging utility for our server side code. This tool greatly improved troubleshooting ability and gave us insight into the inputs and outputs of all the functions called in our core business code. Worked on our Node.js server side systems with a focus on our core business logic and Express.js REST API. Assumed the lead role on our front end Angular application. Fixed many pre-existing bugs, cleaned up the code base, and developed new features in a timely manner. Leveraged the many AWS tools that drive our Serverless Application Model: Lambda, DynamoDB, Cognito, API Gateway, etc. ### Lead Software Engineer - Web & Android Platforms @ GoNation Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Milford, CT Lead the development of a large scale React application for local business discovery which currently serves 300+ small to mid-size businesses. The data from our platform is also used as a content management system which synchronizes our customers' data (upcoming events, menu, etc.) from our platform to their websites. Built an internal admin system for GoNation employees to manage data on our platform Built the GoNation Android app with React Native, which allows us to reuse code from our web platform for maximum development speed ### Web Developer @ Response Marketing Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | New Haven, CT Providing rich and unique user experiences for our clients and their customers using bleeding-edge technologies such as React, Redux, Node.js, GraphQL, and mobile apps with React Native Created a custom CMS system built on Vue.js/Docker/MongoDB with a Python (Flask) backend that allows our clients to add, edit, and reorder UI components on a page quickly and easily to meet their evolving business needs Built internal custom tooling/workflows that allow us to iterate quickly on new projects Migrated our Python backend to a custom Node.js solution in order to take advantage of the growing Node ecosystem and asynchronous I/O, as well as giving us more fine-grained control over our server responses/error messages, etc. Built various web servers/REST APIs using Express/GraphQL ### Web Developer @ Sidequest LLC Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 • Building and maintaining Ruby on Rails infrastructure • Collaborating with a team of developers to meet deadlines and design new features • Using HTML, CSS, Javascript, and various front-end frameworks to develop user interface • Testing and maintaining features in development, staging, and production • Maintaining version control with Git ## Education ### Associate's degree in Health and Exercise Science Manchester Community College ### Windsor Locks High School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/brendanbowidas --- Source: https://flows.cv/brendanbowidas JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/brendanbowidas/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22