# Brendan Xiong

> Software Engineer @ FlakeGuard

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/brendanxiong

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ FlakeGuard (Open Source)
Jan 2023 – Present
• Create a developer tool that runs Jest and Puppeteer to identify flaky tests to improve workflow and product reliability
• Utilize Typescript to improve readability and build for longevity, safety, performance, and scalability by utilizing compile time errors during development and refactoring, greatly reducing production bugs
• Develop modular components with ReactJS and React Router, allowing for a more intuitive, verbose, and replicable way of updating information on the user interface while benefiting from immutability in state and unidirectional data flow, reducing client-server load to reduce load times in the user experience, diminishing turnover and increasing retention
• Improve application performance by managing global state with Redux as a single source of truth for multiple changing states, while boosting efficiency through the time-travel debugging and removing unnecessary state rehydration
• Leverage Webpack to bundle and transpile TS and ES6+ files, improving development efficiency by diminishing costs through code minification into a modular bundle, allowing for edits without reloads, and preventing costly variable rewrites
• Implement PostgreSQL for ACID compliant transactions, keeping user and application data safe, secure, and consistent
• Set up Node.js and Express.js to manage server requests, reducing time-to-market while implementing the middleware design pattern to process asynchronous and concurrent requests across endpoints with Express.js
• Dockerize application to simplify deployment, maintain consistency among dependencies, and refine development

### Support/DevOps Engineer @ Stanford Health Care
Jan 2023 – Present
• Resolve and triage hundreds of ServiceNow tickets from software bugs to database deployments across hospital sites
• Liaise between Service Desk, Networking, and Engineering teams to find the best remediation with minimal downtime
• Maintain 100% success rate for meeting SLAs, coupled with zero reopening of incidents and requests after closure
• Develop Python scripts for automated software updates, increasing departmental productivity and cost savings
• Write Azure SQL queries for retrieving and updating workstation status and specifications in the SCCM SQL Database
• Streamline and assist with new user onboarding of Stanford Health Care’s custom HIPAA compliant LLM: SecureGPT
• Build relationships with clients and internal stakeholders through superb customer service and rapid response times

### Software Engineer | Chuckler - Dating App Driven by Humor Styles @ Open Source
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024
• Utilized WebSocket server and API to allow real-time, event-driven, and bidirectional text communication between users through client-server interaction, reducing latency and data overhead compared to traditional polling methods
• Integrated JSON Web Tokens for their stateless nature and digital signage and to eliminate the need for sessions and cookies, creating a robust and secure authentication and authorization process for the end user

### Software Engineer | Travatar - AI Based Travel Planner @ Open Source
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024
• Developed Open AI based application where user queries are sent to the API and response tokens manipulated to best display data back to the frontend, leveraging Open AI’s robust software and advanced models
• Integrated Google Images API with developer-configured filters, incorporating Google’s vast web index and providing comprehensive results with their image matching technology to deliver visually stunning images and beautify the UX
• Bundled using Vite to reduce development boot-up time with fast compilation, lazy-loading, lightning-fast updates, and an out of box development server, while also removing set up overhead and administrative work, expanding developer efficacy
• Established a MongoDB database using Mongoose as a schema-less, fast and flexible query model alongside a fully loaded cloud developer interface with highly advantageous tools with querying and analytics

### Site Reliability Engineer @ Golden Bear Import & Export
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023
• Optimized company system design through procuring the most suitable services, ranging from load balancers to caches
• Economized costs by creating design optimizations, documenting optimal practices, and writing technical support manuals
• Managed AWS IAM credentials and defined Kubernetes service accounts, streamlining microservice access control

### Support Engineer @ Associated Students UCLA
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021
• Maintained overall hardware and software aspects for Windows, MacOS, and Linux servers, using Bash for system rollouts
• Configured and set up networking aspects ranging from DNS servers and VPCs for software backend management
• Reduced incident resolution time by 50% through creating technical documentation with optimal procedures and solutions

### QA Engineer @ SibLinks, Inc.
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017
• Built automated tests, created testing strategies, and documented bugs for a reliable product, decreasing time-to-market
• Collaborated to define requirements and write out unit, integration and end-to-end tests using BrowserStack


## Education
### Computer Science & Applied Linguistics
UCLA


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-20