Brandon Chinn
Director Of Engineering at Bezos Academy
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrandon Chinn is an experienced engineering leader and coach with nine years of formal experience and a long track record of scaling teams and delivering product-critical systems across mobile, backend, and infrastructure domains. Currently Director of Engineering at Bezos Academy after senior leadership roles at Tally and Quizlet, he has led organizations of up to 45 people to achieve compliance (SOC2, PCI), build B2B SDKs, and improve product metrics like engagement and retention. Brandon combines hands-on technical chops—contributing to open-source projects in Haskell and Python test tooling—with a talent for building hiring funnels, organizational design, and repeatable delivery processes. As a mentor and leadership coach he emphasizes turning limitations into action and uses high-level mentorship practices to multiply team impact. Notably, his open-source work touches respected projects like Hypothesis and Stack, showing an eye for code quality, testing infrastructure, and robust backend design. Based in California, he blends product sensitivity with engineering rigor to drive outcomes that matter to users and business alike.
8 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los Angeles
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (28)
property-based-testing10
pytest10
python10
package-management10
testing10
refactor10
junit10
xml10
functional-programming10
refactoring10
haskell10
type-check9
data-structure9
stacker9
stack9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
commercialhaskell/stack
Sep 2018 - Jul 2020
The Haskell Tool Stack
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:10 commits, 3 PRs, 35 comments in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Brandon primarily contributed to the `commercialhaskell/stack` repository by fixing bugs and improving the `Pantry` component, which seems to be involved in package management. They addressed issues related to directory matching and whitespace handling within the codebase. In addition, they wrote and modified tests to cover specific scenarios, particularly within the `Pantry/ArchiveSpec.hs` file and also adding test for the coverage component.
haskellservant
HypothesisWorks/hypothesis
Mar 2022 - Apr 2022
Hypothesis is a powerful, flexible, and easy to use library for property-based testing.
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:7 reviews, 13 commits, 2 PRs in 15 days
Contributions summary:Brandon significantly contributed to the testing infrastructure of the project. Their work included adding test suites for different versions of pytest, fixing issues related to the JUnit XML report generation, and adding failing test cases. They also improved the test setup by allowing the specification of the pytest command in the testing scripts and making terminal reporting independent of the JUnit report. Additionally, the user addressed strict type checking issues with Pyright.
property-based-testingpythonincrementaltestingfuzzing
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