brendanizu.com
Experience
2024 — Now
2024 — Now
San Francisco, California, United States
• Extended agentic functionality of AI recruiter using OpenAI assistants API and Twilio API to collect
customer feedback and follow up on missed interviews.
• Showcased experimental product functionality to potential investors in series A fundraising, through designing and integrating AI avatar generation enabled via Tavus API and Pipecat Cloud.
• Reduced failures on Express video processing server to near zero by optimizing JavaScript and ffmpeg operations resulting in 80% faster processing speeds.
• Utilized Shadcn and React-Typescript to develop dashboard features including table filters, global platform search, feedback display, and interview labeling.
• Fulfilled key customer requests by enabling features like workflow automation actions, increase visibility into candidate reporting, and extending interviewer functionalities like auto matching.
• Improved software development life cycle of team by building several code generation scripts using Tsoa and Typescript, leading to increased type unification.
2024 — 2024
2024 — 2024
Pleasant Grove, Utah, United States
• Was responsible for component-based design and architecture of all customer facing UI, coded primarily in React-Typescript using Next.js
• Streamlined sales-onboarding process by fully automating Stripe customer integration, including the automatic creation of subscription and product entities, and automatic billing of a usage based subscription product.
• Constructed back end infrastructure using Pydantic and SQL Alchemy, handling HIPAA-sensitive patient information at scale. Led several different back end migrations using alembic scripts for version control.
• Constructed CI/CD processes in GitHub actions for executing back end API tests with pytest, front end
integration tests with Cypress, automated database versioning with alembic, and deployment to AWS.
• Managed several micro services in AWS including S3 storage for patient files, various Lambda functions, and ECS/EC2 instances.
• Helped increase dental office ROI by up to 20% a month for hundreds of dental clinics across the US, showcasing product value for dozens of investors, aiding in the successful fundraising process of company seed round.
2023 — 2024
2023 — 2024
Provo, Utah, United States
• Founded early stage start-up for building AI-powered software for people with speech-related disabilities.
Collaborated with users with ALS and cerebral palsy for initial feature set and user testing.
• Participated in various startup competitions through the university as well as completing an early application for YC ’24
• Utilized OpenAI APIs including embedding generation and completions APIs to train a model to generate responses in likeness with user information. Built out the application front end using React with Typescript. Handled datastorage using a Postgres DB with Supabase.
2023 — 2023
2023 — 2023
San Francisco Bay Area
• Implemented REST APIs with the Java Spring framework, adding additional functionality to the gap.com
website, including updating customer profile, shipping information, and other back-end services.
• Designed and developed API endpoints using Microsoft Azure services.
• Used Jacoco to analyze and increase code coverage to 85% for several active repositories.
• Improved existing APIs by adding additional functionality as well as more robust unit tests.
• Developed build scripts in YAML, which automated the end-to-end CI/CD pipeline through GitHub Actions.
• Presented work done throughout the entire development life cycle to managers, team members, and fellow interns.
2021 — 2023
2021 — 2023
Orem, Utah, United States
• Created over 100 Python automation scripts leveraging diverse libraries, including pandas and Selenium.
• Used advanced debugging techniques using Chrome developer tools to analyze the functionality of customer websites and assess Captcha implementation techniques.
Education
Brigham Young University