# Brett Sanders

> Lead Software Engineer

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

## Work Experience
### Lead Software Engineer @ Disney Streaming
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ Disney Streaming
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco, California, United States

### Senior Engineering Manager @ HOVER Inc.
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
Managed team of 10 engineers building, scaling and maintaining our web/mobile applications and design system
Oversaw the development and delivery of 3D web application built in React, Typescript, GraphQL and XState
Headed the delivery of improved upload system using Firebase to support rapidly growing insurance user base
Conducted hundreds of interviews to grow the engineering organization from 30 engineers to 100 engineers
Established mobile platform team to help engineering team scale, improve architecture, and increase throughput
Led the technical strategy of our CI/CD effort to rapidly and safely ship new versions of our mobile application
Increased upload success rate to 98%+ and decreased customer support tickets by improving mobile upload UX
Built a robust system to automatically detect outages and respond efficiently to minimize system downtime

### Engineering Manager @ HOVER Inc.
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
Increased unit test coverage of critical functionality in React Native mobile app by 30% to decrease feedback cycles
Led and delivered a cross-organizational project with 6 different teams to unlock a new market for home contractors
Decreased the time to merge PRs in the mobile app from 75 to 30 minutes by optimizing build pipeline in Bitrise

### Senior Software Engineer @ HOVER Inc.
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
Led the execution of the 3D web application written in React, Redux, Javascript, and Styled Components
Increased engagement with the product by 30% through better performance, UX and improved feature set
Shipped 3D web app to be responsive at different screen sizes and performant on all major browsers and devices

### Software Engineer @ Vevo
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
Built and deployed Vevo’s flagship TV application to FireTV and Xbox using React, Redux, and GraphQL
Increased user signups by over 100% as tech lead of full-stack engineering project to improve onboarding flow
Built the Chromecast web application in HTML/CSS/Javascript which runs on over 50,000 devices monthly

### Application Developer @ EY
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Seattle, WA

### Financial Planning and Analysis Intern @ Avanade
Jan 2010 – Jan 2013 | Seattle, WA


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Information Systems
University of Washington
Jan 2008 – Jan 2013


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-29