Branden Vennes
Software Engineer at CharterUP
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolBranden Vennes is a JVM-focused software engineer with 9 years of experience building scalable distributed systems, data platforms, and web applications across startups and large enterprises. He has a proven track record designing resilient event-driven architectures and microservices, notably architecting a mission-critical streaming data platform at Disney Streaming that processed millions of real-time events. Comfortable across Scala, Java, and Python, Branden has built blockchain runtime components, schema registries with semantic versioning, and multi-language artifact pipelines that bridge services and analytics. He combines backend systems expertise—Kinesis, Spark/Databricks, Parquet, AWS—with practical product-facing work like React UIs and developer-friendly CI/CD automation. Based in Austin, he brings a background in test automation and QA that informs his focus on reliability, backwards compatibility, and zero-downtime deployments. Pragmatic and detail-oriented, he often surfaces subtle operational safeguards (e.g., stream-snapshot state management and schema compatibility checks) that keep large distributed teams moving safely.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of Portland
Github Skills (27)
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functional-programming10
scala-native9
cats-effect9
monix9
scala9
akka-streams9
functional-reactive-programming9
streaming9
stream-processing8
extensible8
effects8
raii8
continuation8
asynchronous8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
b-vennes/news-curator
Aug 2023 - Mar 2025
Curate your news on a custom website
Contributions:37 PRs, 28 pushes, 39 branches in 1 year 6 months
b-vennes/developer-blog
Feb 2020 - Jul 2020
Branden Vennes's Developer Blog
Contributions:28 PRs, 88 pushes, 5 branches in 5 months
gatsbyreactdeveloper-blogjekylltypescript
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