# Dylan B. > Staff Engineer @ Givebacks | Staff Engineer Location: Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/dylanb With over 7 years of full-stack development experience, I am a Staff Engineer at Givebacks, a fast-growing startup that makes supporting the causes you care about a seamless part of your everyday life. I leverage my passion for user-centric design and web performance to craft exceptional web applications that captivate users and drive business growth. I oversee the entire frontend codebase, provide strong leadership to the entire product engineering team while providing mentorship to a dedicated team of frontend developers, ensuring technical excellence across all frontend initiatives. I have a proven track record of delivering impactful solutions and fostering seamless user experiences, working with a variety of engineering environments and technologies, such as JavaScript, TypeScript, React, React Native, Node, Ruby ,PHP, Swift, Java, and Kotlin. I excel at translating complex ideas into intuitive interfaces that meet the highest quality and industry standards, and I enjoy pushing the boundaries of what is possible by finding unique ways to solve unique business requirements. I am always eager to learn new skills and trends, and to collaborate with internal and external teams to achieve our shared goals. ## Work Experience ### Staff Engineer @ Givebacks Jan 2023 – Present A highly accomplished Staff Engineer with a distinguished track record in overseeing the entire frontend codebase while providing strong leadership and mentorship to a dedicated team of frontend developers. Proven expertise in crafting exceptional user experiences, optimizing web performance, and driving technical excellence across all frontend initiatives. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Givebacks Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 At Givebacks, a 2022 inc 5000(#375) company we make supporting the causes you care about a seamless part of your everyday life. As the lead senior software engineer I not only lead the team of frontend engineers but I also architect and oversee all development across the various frontend and native platform applications. I use my experience to be a product owner ensuring the overall quality of UI / UIX development across all platforms. I find enjoyment pushing the boundaries of what is possible by finding unique ways to solve unique business requirements. * Lead the frontend development across multiple platforms including web, react-native, iOS / Android platforms * Independently lead and Developed critical features for iOS(swift) & Android(kotlin) in native language to support the React Native Applications * Planed, architected and lead the frontend infrastructure to deliver a unique and flawless frontend ecosystem that accommodates several different frontend applications(Memberhub, givebacks, cause admin) * Mentored and lead front engineers to integrate into becoming productive code/product owners * Transform business vision and ideas into reality by transforming, planning and creating actionable business and developmental goals * Aligned business vision / expectations with engineering realities and help drive a tech forward business where stakeholders are aligned with the current engineering directions to create the best consumer product possible ### Software Engineer @ Taxsaver Plan Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex As a software developer at Taxsaver Plan I both improve and develop new software that is used both internally throughout the company and externally with our user base. I strive to provide the best user experience to our users by maintaining the highest quality and industry code standard. I work diligently to communicate with internal teams to continually improve / develop software that directly improves and increases both employee and user experience. Whether it is web, mobile or software development I provide the highest quality code by continually keeping up to date with the latest standards, trends and practices. My key accomplishments include: •Worked directly on the design, development, maintenance and deployment of a mobile application that directly interacted with both new and legacy RESTful APIs by using React Native, Redux, TypeScript, Ruby on Rails, MySQL and PostgreSQL •Responsible for the design, development and implementation of new Frontend web/backend software that directly impacts the the day-to-day of business operations •Utilized React to build internal web based software that interacts with RESTful API to display large amounts of data sets while keeping user experience, performance and usability at the forefront •Maintained legacy software while also improving/rebuilding it in a more modern, performant and sustainable manner by utilizing technologies such as React and PHP • Utilized git, OpenProject and Google suite to cohesively work with the entire team ensuring new code deployments met the highest standards ### Lead Full Stack Engineer @ Keyper Digital Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Plano, Texas As the lead Full Stack Developer for Keyper Marketing I strived to provide our clients with excellent web and software solutions. I handle everything from web project planning, creation, technical SEO, to creation and deployment of full web applications that fit the clients various business and operational needs. Developed and maintained full stack applications that connect with multiple external and internal RESTfull API endpoints and aggregated large business data in PostgresSQL/MySQL databases Coordinated with company clients to develop full stack solutions to fulfill and improve various business needs and operations Designed and developed efficient websites according to the business objectives and needs of the various clients using technologies such as React, Wordpress, Javascript, Node and PHP Fulfilled lead and project manager roles/ responsibilities across several projects including custom full stack software applications, Shopify and Wordpress projects ### Military Police Officer @ United States Army Jan 2010 – Jan 2013 | Ft. Hood, Texas Supervised soldiers in training and leading of military police functions Received The Army Commendation Medal for exceptionally meritorious service while assigned to United States Army, Ft Hood, Texas Awarded Army Achievement Medal for meritorious service while conducting law enforcement duties at United States Army Garrison Deagu, South Korea Honorably Discharged ## Education ### Bachelor's degree in Emerging media and communcation The University of Texas at Dallas ### Full Stack Web Development in Computer Software Engineering Devmountain ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/dylan-brandenburg - GitHub: https://github.com/Dylan-Brandenburg --- Source: https://flows.cv/dylanb JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/dylanb/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22