Brandon Brown
Senior Engineering Manager at SecurityScorecard
Easley, South Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrandon Brown is a Senior Engineering Manager with 14 years of experience building JVM-based web applications and leading distributed teams, currently advancing engineering at SecurityScorecard. He blends hands-on Scala and Java expertise with product-focused leadership, having progressed from senior engineer roles to principal and now management while driving cross-team delivery in agile environments. An active open-source contributor, he worked on porting Play Framework’s Twirl template engine to Scala 3, demonstrating deep compiler and build-system know-how. His background in sound design and film audio gives him a unique attention to detail and user experience, which he applies to crafting intuitive MVC-driven software. Based in Easley, SC, he also maintains long-term freelance and webmaster projects, showing a sustained commitment to both craft and continuous delivery.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MFA Sound Design, MFA Sound Design at Savannah College of Art and DesignBachelor of Arts English, Bachelor of Arts English at Ursinus College
English, Spanish, French
Github Skills (7)
compiler10
compiler-compiler10
template-engine10
scala10
sbt-plugin9
playframework9
sbt8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
playframework/twirl
Nov 2021 - Mar 2022
Twirl is Play's default template engine
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 9 commits, 1 PR in 3 months
Contributions summary:Brandon primarily focused on porting the Twirl template engine to support Scala 3, including cross-compilation efforts. This involved significant code modifications to the compiler and related build configurations. The user also addressed formatting and cleanup tasks related to the integration of changes from another branch, ensuring code quality and build integrity. Furthermore, the user made minor adjustments to improve the parser and API components.
template-enginetemplatetwirlsbt-pluginplayframework
brbrown25/testcontainers-scala-kafka-utils
Apr 2022 - Feb 2023
A library which takes inspiration from embedded kafka
Contributions:2 reviews, 23 commits, 21 PRs in 10 months
takestestinginspirationscalaembedded
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