Brandon Buck

Résumé

15 years of building web platforms, APIs, apps, and games.

I'm a full-stack engineer who has worked everywhere from team management to individual contribution, on web apps, native iOS apps, and games, with some DevOps and infrastructure along the way. I learn new tools quickly and like problems that don't have an obvious answer yet.

Austin, TX

Skills

Languages

  • JavaScriptExpert
  • TypeScriptExpert
  • RubyProficient
  • GoProficient
  • PythonProficient
  • Java/KotlinProficient
  • C#Proficient
  • RegoExperienced

Databases & tools

  • PostgreSQLProficient
  • RedisProficient
  • MongoDBProficient

AI

  • Claude Code
  • Antigravity
  • Agent-powered workflows

Cloud

  • AWSS3, Lambda, etc.
  • Open Policy AgentFamiliar
  • Vercel
  • Coolify
  • WowzaPrior experience

Experience

  1. Prism.fm, Austin, TX

    Senior Software Engineer · Austin, TX

    • Improved back-end code quality and architectural patterns in Laravel.
    • Sped up several back-end endpoints by orders of magnitude, cutting processing time from minutes to seconds.
    • Designed and implemented extensible data ingestion patterns to integrate data from remote providers.
    • Built an internal deterministic workflow execution tool to orchestrate internal tools and augment AI workflows.

    Nov 2024 — Present

  2. Gaming Gosu, Austin, TX

    Co-founder · Austin, TX

    • Build a trading card game nexus from the ground up: pulling in data, deploying, maintaining, and driving development.
    • Work with my co-founder to guide the company's direction.
    • Defined and implemented a way for end users to manage shared content through NFC chips in physical products.

    Jan 2024 — Present

  3. Enduvo, Remote

    Platform Team Lead · Remote

    • Took ownership of a patchwork web API and React front end, and significantly improved readability and stability with tests and documentation.
    • Designed and built a new project structure and code infrastructure on AWS Lambda, breaking the APIs into modular pieces.
    • Planned and implemented an attribute-based access control system powering SaaS rules for many levels of resource access and ownership.
    • Participated in business-critical leadership meetings following Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS) practices.

    Jun 2023 — Nov 2024

  4. Gavel, Remote

    Senior Software Engineer · Remote

    • Encouraged the team to write design documents for upcoming features to align requirements and expectations.
    • Ramped up on and implemented new policies in Rego with Open Policy Agent.
    • Aligned teams across the organization with new documentation and sharing patterns, improving knowledge sharing.

    Apr 2023 — Jun 2023

  5. Google, Austin, TX

    Software Engineer · Austin, TX

    • Designed and built solutions to replace spreadsheets used by marketing teams.
    • Worked with marketing teams to design solutions for their specific needs.
    • Quickly ramped up on accessibility reviews of team products nearing launch.
    • Worked closely with distributed teammates to identify and expand internal solutions that benefited both teams.
    • Contributed to in-house beta testing.

    Nov 2021 — Mar 2023

  6. DocuSign, Austin, TX

    Senior Software Engineer · Austin, TX

    • Managed and mentored a small team of developers, helping them grow in their roles.
    • Worked with DocuSign teams after the acquisition to align our company with notary goals.
    • Strengthened trust in the remote notary system by integrating DocuSign's identity verification.
    • Helped align the team with DocuSign engineering styles and standards.

    Jul 2020 — Nov 2021

  7. Liveoak Technologies

    Senior Software Engineer

    • Worked on highly concurrent conferencing software for businesses.
    • Helped design and build the React rebuild of the UI.
    • Built WebRTC video and audio conferencing with OpenTok and React.
    • Drove the design of the React front end so new developers could onboard and make changes easily.
    • Reverse-engineered DocuSign's formula behavior and optimized execution for forms with thousands of fields.

    Nov 2017 — Jul 2020

  8. The Honest Company

    Senior Software Engineer

    • Designed, built, and deployed a fault-tolerant payment processing service that was easy to debug (a 600% improvement in debugging time).
    • Built back-end and front-end features for the Honest website.

    Nov 2015 — Oct 2017

  9. The New Office

    Software Engineer

    • Built client solutions in NetSuite to project requirements.
    • Ramped up quickly on NetSuite customization and became the company's go-to resource.
    • Met regularly with clients on progress and issues, on-site when needed.
    • Helped move the team from waterfall to agile development.
    • Helped start the redesign of the company's in-house data management product.

    Jan 2015 — Nov 2015

  10. Twin Engine Labs

    Software Engineer

    • Designed and developed iOS apps backed by Rails JSON APIs.
    • Worked closely with clients to pin down their needs and find the fastest path to release.
    • Pushed the company to expand beyond iOS into web and Android apps.
    • Built a wide range of client apps, including:
      • A recommendation engine for a graph-based social network.
      • A Netflix-style subscription service for a client's large video library.
      • Integrations with customer platforms and APIs.
      • A COPPA-compliant, parent-controlled messaging service for children.
    • Trained a client to maintain and grow their app after the contract ended.
    • Mentored local students building iOS apps for school projects.

    May 2013 — Jan 2015

  11. Logic Nation

    Development Team Leader

    • Started on the PHP back end and JavaScript front end of a social network.
    • Quickly rose to lead developer, driving core features as the product evolved.
    • Led the move to Node.js and CoffeeScript, which sped the team up and enabled real-time updates over sockets.
    • Brought in new web technologies for server-side rendering.
    • Experimented with a web server whose implementation and configuration lived as nodes in a graph database.
    • Set up the platform's first deployment and established the team's practices.
    • Mentored teammates on the Node back end and CoffeeScript.

    Dec 2011 — May 2013

  12. New Tech Computer Systems

    C# Developer (Intern)

    • Designed and built a scheduling system for nursing homes, with a calendar for booking staff, patients, and internal resources.
    • Automated a convoluted, manual process for creating and entering permissions into the database.
    • Built sample applications demonstrating C# skills.

    Sep 2011 — Dec 2011

Projects

Education

  1. Bossier Parish Community College, Bossier City, LA

    Associate of Applied Science in Computer Science · Bossier City, LA

    • Web development
    • General software development (C++ and Java)
    • Advanced math

    Aug 2010 — May 2012