Braden Herndon
Co-Founder, Head Of Business & Engineering at LegendKeeper
Richardson, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolBraden Herndon is a software leader and entrepreneur with 11 years of experience building web applications and developer tools, currently co-founding and heading Business & Engineering at LegendKeeper, a platform for authors and RPG gamemasters. He combines product instincts with hands-on engineering, having progressed from associate engineer to senior roles at Match and shipped automation tooling at NASA JPL as an intern. His background in computer science and cognitive science informs a user-centered approach to worldbuilding software that balances complex data models with approachable UX. Braden has a track record of deploying services with Docker and Git-based workflows and translating technical work into clear documentation for end users. He is comfortable bridging research (graduate ML/NLP work) and product delivery, bringing both academic rigor and startup grit to small engineering teams. Based in Richardson, Texas, he enjoys turning narrative-heavy domains into structured, shareable software experiences.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Computer Science, Master's Degree Computer Science at The University of Texas at DallasSemester at Sea - University of Virginia
English
Github Skills (132)
realtime10
peer-to-peer10
prosemirror10
collaborative-editing10
wysiwyg10
collaboration10
sketch10
p2p10
javascript10
yjs10
drawing10
sdk10
editorjs10
rich-text10
diagram10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
AdventureBeard/adventurebeard.github.io
Jun 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:1 release, 22 PRs, 164 pushes in 9 months
AdventureBeard/tldraw
Dec 2021 - Dec 2023
A tiny little drawing app.
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 2 years
tinyreactdrawing-appdrawing
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