# Brendan Downing > Senior Product Engineer @ QA Wolf Location: Reno, Nevada, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/brendandowning Full stack developer with a passion for learning new technologies, products, systems, and rock climbing. I'm a fast learner, a hard worker, am highly coachable, and have extensive experience working on and leading small tight-knit teams. I am excited to create applications that will impact the people who use them positively and ultimately improve the world. I have experience with many languages and frameworks, and am currently working with Typescript, React, tRPC, Temporal.io and Apollo GraphQL I work at QA Wolf as a Product Engineer ## Work Experience ### Senior Product Engineer @ QA Wolf Jan 2025 – Present ### Product Engineer II @ QA Wolf Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | United States Responsible for planning and executing targeted projects across multiple services. The main project I worked on introduced the concept of "rules" to our run system. This required standing up a database for our run system service, designing and implementing the models required by the rules feature, and making sure this feature was production-ready. This feature needed to scale to handle over 3 million runs a month and is a main part of our proprietary software. ### Product Engineer @ QA Wolf Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | United States Learned from and collaborated with senior engineers. Eventually began owning small projects while polishing my software design and coding skills. These projects ranged from implementing an application-wide error reporting process, large frontend and backend refactors to support new features, and designing/implementing various new features ### QA Engineer Lead @ QA Wolf Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 - Built a Proof of concept to optimize our platform's virtual machine creation utilizing Firecracker Go SDK and presented it to the engineering team. This got me my role as a Product Engineer - Managed 5 QAEs - Reviewed code to ensure adherence to best practices - Managed 8+ customers at a time ### QA Engineer 2 @ QA Wolf Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 - Architected test suites for several high-profile customers, prioritizing stability and robustness. - Designed and maintained several features that fix common QAE pain points while working with our product - Contributed multiple updates to our platform's internal tooling utilizing GraphQL, Next.js, and Typescript ### QA Engineer @ QA Wolf Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 - Built automated test suites using Javascript and Microsoft playwright for our 20+ customers ### Contributor @ OpenBeta Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 Open source project built and run by climbers. OpenBeta is a nonprofit initiative that enables open access and innovative uses of data about rock climbing routes. -Implemented a sitemap.xml file generated by the website's pages, with Typescript and GraphQL increasing overall web traffic and website exposure through search engine optimization -Crafted component leveraging React.js and Next.js that allows users to import their previously ticked climbs from another website (Mountain Project), increasing ease of use and access for our users. -Designed a full-stack feature with Apollo GraphQL, MongoDB, and React.js that allows users to mark a climb as completed or tried, and document information about their attempt -Utilized Jest to test the Ticks collection in MongoDB allowing for a streamlined development process as the application grows ### Beginner Lead Blade Repair Technician @ Rope Partner Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 -Consistently partnered with advanced technicians to support and learn from them when working ground support -Communicated efficiently and respectfully with upper management and teammates throughout the repair process -Created, updated and managed a ground support inventory tracking application using Google Appsheet along with spreadsheets that increased site wide productivity -Maintained a high quality in my repairs, attention to detail as a ground support, and in my communication with clients - Purposefully tackled large and complicated repairs as my first repairs to expedite my learning and growth process as an emerging technician and received positive feedback on the quality of these repairs from the blade services team ### Opener / Supervisor / Retail Coordinator @ Planet Granite Sunnyvale Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Sunnyvale, California, United States -Recognized twice as a top performing employee in Quarterly staff meetings and consistently asked to take on out-of-scope tasks for management -Rapidly promoted to Supervisor, and Retail Coordinator (8 months) and promoted to managing/ensuring prompt opening of the gym within 4 months -Responsible for training and coaching new hires and new openers on proper customer etiquette as well as business policies and procedures ### Field Guide @ Aspiro Wilderness Adventure Therapy Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Mt Pleasant, Utah -Responsible for effectively communicating in a non aggressive and empathic way with clients on a daily basis. -Maintained team cohesion and efficiency in stressful situations by actively communicating with teammates and team leads. -Established trust and respect with therapists and clients by consistently executing treatment plans with a high attention to detail. ## Education ### Computer Software Engineering App Academy Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 ### Associate of Arts - AA in Psychology West Valley College ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/brendan-downing --- Source: https://flows.cv/brendandowning JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/brendandowning/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-29