Brandon Black
Senior Engineering Leadership, Alexa at Amazon
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrandon Black is a senior engineering leader at Amazon working on Alexa with over a decade of experience designing scalable, distributed systems and service-oriented architectures. He has a strong track record building and leading high-performing teams across startups and tech giants including Honey, GitHub, Twitter, MongoDB, and Facebook, and has founded a startup (Dreadnought). Equally comfortable in strategy and hands-on engineering, he contributes to open-source crypto tooling—notably Taproot and p2tr work in bitcoinjs-lib and BitGoJS—showing deep expertise in Bitcoin transaction internals. Based in the Greater Seattle area, he blends product-focused leadership with architecture and reliability chops to ship large-scale, production systems. Colleagues describe him as an operator who moves fast on complex technical problems while mentoring engineers and stabilizing fast-growing platforms.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science and Information Systems, BS, Computer Science and Information Systems at LeTourneau University
German, English
Github Skills (18)
tapi10
javascript10
tx10
bitcoin10
bitcoins10
ruby10
release-management10
taps10
nodejs10
testing9
typescript9
typescript-types9
sdk9
grammars9
syntax-highlighting9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
BitGo/BitGoJS
Nov 2021 - Jan 2023
BitGo JavaScript SDK
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:283 reviews, 58 commits, 39 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Brandon primarily worked on the `bitgojs` JavaScript SDK, making several fixes related to Bitcoin Taproot and UTXO handling. These changes include removing debuggers, loading keychains for taproot signing, getting appropriate signing keys for all signing calls, and adding tests related to p2tr. The user also imported files from `bitcoinjs-lib` and updated the code to work with version 6 of `bitcoinjs-lib`. These contributions suggest expertise in Bitcoin-related development.
javascriptblockchainsdkjavascript-sdkbitgo
github-linguist/linguist
Nov 2016 - Feb 2017
Language Savant. If your repository's language is being reported incorrectly, send us a pull request!
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Release Manager
Back-end Developer & Release ManagerContributions:13 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Brandon primarily focused on releasing new versions of the Linguist project, as indicated by numerous commits bumping the version number. Their contributions include updating the project's version information, grammar files, and other related configurations. They were also involved in fixing a null reference bug, and reverting a release indicating hands-on project management.
linguisticlanguage-grammarslanguage-statisticspull-requestrequest
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