# Jeremiah B. Dir > Senior Software Engineer - Identity & Merchant Integrations at Braintree Location: Santa Clara, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/jeremiahbdir Hi I'm Jeremiah, and I'm a senior fullstack engineer over at Braintree working on their Identity platform. I have a BS in Computational Media from Georgia Tech and my main tech interests are accessibility engineering, systems design, UI/UX, and devices. When I'm not working, I like to DJ, ordain weddings, and play sports (particularly volleyball) ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Braintree Jan 2024 – Present | San Jose, California, United States - Working on innovative identity and authentication products handling more than a billion requests per day - Mentoring three junior engineers, multiple interns - Leading the E2E design, implementation, test, and release of a major Identity automation project - Multiple patents pending - SJ Chapter lead of Thrive, our disability ERG ### Software Engineer II @ Braintree Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | San Jose, California, United States - Led UI/UX designs for key merchant facing products in order to improve merchant and user UX - Mentored two full time engineers and two summer interns - Led efforts surrounding third party integrations, SCIM, and OAuth products ### Software Engineer II @ PayPal Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Jose, California, United States - Implemented cutting edge search project MVP within Identity, leading efforts for UI/UX design and full stack implementation ### Software Engineer - Identity Platform @ PayPal Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | San Jose, California, United States - Implemented multi-quarter project to automate a key Identity management platform, optimizing execution time from several weeks to under one minute. - Extensive work with systems design, API optimization, and UI/UX design on global platforms taking in tens of millions of requests per day. ### Data Center Engineer @ Georgia Institute of Technology Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Atlanta, Georgia, United States - Installed, configured, and managed 100’s of servers and server clusters worth over 5,000,000 USD - Worked extensively with data center and server technologies, handling an inventory of 1000’s of assets. ### Software Engineer Intern @ PayPal Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | San Jose, California, United States - Integrated module federation into a next gen component management platform - Created module federation deployment and adoption rails for our extensive package platforms - Extensive work with Storybook, Webpack, Next.js, and Node.js ### Software Engineer Intern @ PayPal Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area - Rewrote error service UI from non-interactive static page to interactive, dynamic page consistent with the rest of PayPal.com. - Rewrote global error handling service into a serverless JAMstack application, handling millions of requests per day. - Worked extensively with CDN technologies as well as build & deploy, UI/UX, and static application technologies. ### Undergraduate Researcher - Syrian Conflict Mapping @ Georgia Institute of Technology Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Greater Atlanta Area - Developed interactive, real-time map of conflict events in the Syrian Civil War with over a decade of historical data. - Uses timeline slider as well as various configurable filters such as initiator, conflict type and dates included. - Backend scripts use Azure as host and database, pulls data from ACLED conflict db hourly and automatically translates. - Used by on the ground peace negotiators in Syria with both English and Arabic views as well as mobile and desktop views. ### Software Engineer Intern @ PayPal Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area - Developed RESTful Node API built on Koa/Joi acting as MongoDB database intermediary - Heavily optimized and refactored database itself, with several critical security improvements and performance optimizations - All Node teams at PayPal use API for all build and deployments within PayPal tech stack ### Undergraduate Researcher @ Georgia Tech VIP Program Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Greater Atlanta Area - Engineering for Social Innovation research team within GT, working with five other students. - Developed "hearing car" device for hearing impaired drivers that detects and displays visually car horns and sirens for the driver. Based on Arduino and C++. - Developed javascript based workflow automation script, tying together several Google applications. - Worked with several partners, including the Georgia Center for Non-Profits and the Idaho School for the Deaf and Blind ### Software Engineer Intern @ BitPay Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater Atlanta Area - Worked on Bitpay core platform with a team of five other software engineers. - Developed database integrated tools and utilities with Node.js backend and MongoDB database. - Refactored and contributed to several trading tools, marketplace integrations, and core platform scripts. ### Software Engineer Intern @ Spiceworks Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Austin, Texas Area - Refactored and optimized on-network advertising infrastructure (Javascript frontend, Scala backend). - Increased the company's annual revenue by approx. 500,000 USD through refactoring and optimization of codebase. ### Teaching Assistant @ College of Computing at Georgia Tech Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Atlanta, Georgia, United States - TA'd for CS 2316, which is the second class in the Python chain for Industrial Engineering students - Led recitation lecturing with two other TA's - Designed multiple homeworks and lesson plans for recitation - Held weekly office hours, assisting and mentoring a class of 40 students ### Software Engineer @ Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Greater Atlanta Area - Developed a multi-faceted web portal with html frontend and php backend, integrated with an extensive SQL database. - Extensive work with virtualization development software and server side implementation structuring. - Setup and maintained a virtualized, isolated QA environment with scripted backups and testing. - Supported an extensive distributed computing network infrastructure. ### Marketing & Accounting Intern @ Kim & Associates Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Greater Atlanta Area - Created, developed and implemented data-driven marketing strategies with one other intern. - Conducted market research and data analysis for the real estate division using Python. - Rental properties worth approx. 900,000USD purchased based on my data reports/analysis. ### General Contractor @ Williams Construction Co. Jan 2010 – Jan 2015 | Savannah, Georgia Area - Worked in residential construction and renovation for a private real estate developer - Built and installed electrical, plumbing, and structural components in scores of houses - Extensive work in all aspects of residential construction, including initial building, renovation, and repairs/maintenance ## Education ### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computational Media Georgia Institute of Technology ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jeremiah-b-dir --- Source: https://flows.cv/jeremiahbdir JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/jeremiahbdir/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-01