# Brenden R.

> Software Engineer | Full Stack  | Pythonista | *nix Guy | Process Automator

Location: San Jose, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/brendenr

About me:
	•	Developed a lifelong fascination for technical concepts / applications at a very young age.
	•	Began employing Python to solve personal business challenges in roughly 2015.
	•	Deeply explored Linux, extensively configuring Arch Linux system(s) from scratch in roughly 2017-2021.
	•	Accumulated 5+ years of professional programming experience across various areas.
	•	Enjoys consuming various programming / hacking-related content on a regular basis.
	•	Can often be found experimenting with the latest trends / personal concepts.
	•	Derives genuine satisfaction from making the lives of my fellow engineers easier.

Tooling used:
Apollo, AWS, Bash, Celery, CI/CD, Cron, Django, Docker, Electron, Flask, Graphene, GraphQL, Grommet, Gunicorn, jQuery, Lua, MongoDB, MySQL, Next.js, NextJS, Nginx, NodeJS, Postgres, Pydantic, Pytest, Python, React, Redis, rollup.js, Sequelize, SQLAlchemy, SQLite3, Svelte, Twilio, Typescript

And so much more...

## Work Experience
### Ground Software Engineer @ Astro Digital
Jan 2024 – Present | California, United States

### Full Stack Software Engineer @ Roadz
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | California, United States
Primary Achievements:
• Addressed various issues impeding the productivity of my teammates. Resolving development pain points, Enhancing development efficiency, and enabling fellow engineers to reproduce otherwise unreproducible issues.
• Further enhanced team performance by ramping up new hire(s) and providing guidance on development tasks, fascilitating the accomplishment of tasks as assigned.
• Identified and resolved dormant system stability issues, significantly improving system reliability for essential internal systems relied upon by customer-facing products.
• Swiftly implemented urgent backend requirements while collaborating with frontend peer(s) to facilitate timely delivery to meet the client's needs on time.
• Automated a decent portion of infrastructure QA processes resulting in locating bugs significantly faster that otherwise went undetected.
• Contributed towards the implementation of a UI/UX redesign for a customer-facing marketplace, Authoring various customer-facing components. resulting in increased customer engagement. 

Additional contributions:
• Composed, tested, fixed, and reviewed various software for an array of codebases.
• Maintained, simulated, tested, and fixed CI/CD pipelines.
• Heavily contributed to the development of internal REST API, facilitating data synchronization across data platform and fleet manager-facing dashboard.
• Independently addressed REST API errors, data issues, and server stability bugs.
• Spearheaded initiatives for data validation, and de-duplication of data.
• And much more...

Tooling used:
- React, NextJS, TypeScript, Python, GraphQL, Django, Django Rest
Framework, Docker, Grommet, Pydantic, Graphene, Apollo, Bash, CI/CD,
AWS, Postgres, SQL, Retool

### Backend Software Engineer @ Verint
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022
• Developed the adoption of Websockets via AWS API Gateway, supplanting outdated jQuery polling techniques.
• Orchestrated a significant performance enhancement, resulting in a remarkable 9.7x acceleration of user-facing database queries.
• Implemented the orchestration for remote developer systems, streamlining mandatory setup/configuration/dependencies for software engineering contractors.
• Demonstrated a strong commitment to code quality by addressing defects, introducing new features, and ensuring rigorous testing for the core codebase and infrastructure.
• Leveraged expertise in code review processes to provide constructive feedback and implement bug fixes, fostering a collaborative and quality-driven environment.
• Proactively participated in refining internal procedures, actively contributing to process optimization and operational efficiency.

- Django, MySQL, Redis, MongoDB, AWS, Celery, jQuery, Pytest, Twilio, Python, Javascript, Bash, AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate

### Frontend Software Engineer / Consultant @ Meta Moon Gaming
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | California, United States
• Developed the MVP for the MetaMoon startup.
• Grew the core team by onboarding developers.
• Leveraged Sequelize ORM for efficient data storage.
• Optimized SDLC and UX using Svelte.
• Offered technical consultation to the Owner.

- NodeJS, Svelte, Electron, Sequelize

### Backend / Fullstack Software Engineer @ Client
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Canada
• Independently architected a substantial backend codebase.
• Boosted code coverage with Pytest unit tests.
• Deployed Docker for efficient development.
• Authored comprehensive documentation.
• Uncovered security vulnerabilities in payment middleware. (RCE & DB)

- Flask, Postgres, SQLAlchemy, Redis, Docker, Pytest, Gunicorn, Cron, Nginx

### Software Engineer @ Unknown
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018
• Developed numerous Python programs independently for various clients.
• Delivered personalized support for clients.

### Independent Business Owner @ Online Retail
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | California, United States
- Leveraged handwritten code to gain a competitive advantage in multiple markets

### Data Recovery Technician @ DriveSavers Data Recovery
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Novato, California, United States
•	Performed Initial Analysis on various types of hard drives/storage media
•	Documented procedures in regards to the drive within a FileMaker database
•	Troubleshot various hard drives and storage media
•	Determined whether the drive needed a new platter or not
•	Created initial images of customers data
•	Enjoyed the challenge of a fast-paced work environment
•	Engaged in collaboration with coworkers towards a common goal
•	Troubleshot potentially faulty equipment regularly


## Education
### Computer Software Engineering
Western Governors University

### Computer Science & Programming
Solano Community College


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/brenden-rice
- GitHub: https://github.com/innateessence

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Last updated: 2026-04-10