# Brendan Izu > Founding Engineer @ Alex Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/brendanizu brendanizu.com ## Work Experience ### Founding Software Engineer @ Alex AI Jan 2024 – Present | 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. ### Founding Software Engineer @ Stratus Jan 2024 – Jan 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. ### Software Engineer @ Sandbox Jan 2023 – Jan 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. ### Software Engineer Intern @ Gap Inc. Jan 2023 – Jan 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. ### Python Programmer @ SecurityMetrics Jan 2021 – Jan 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. ### Service Desk Analyst @ Brigham Young University Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Provo, Utah, United States ## Education ### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science Brigham Young University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/brendanizu --- Source: https://flows.cv/brendanizu JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/brendanizu/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05