Summary
Brandon Donnelson is an AI Lead Engineer and seasoned full-stack technologist with 14 years of experience building web and enterprise systems across Java, C#, and Node.js and deploying them on AWS, GCP, and Azure. He combines hands-on engineering—contributing to open-source projects like the GWTP framework—with architecture and people leadership, mentoring teams and streamlining workflows to accelerate delivery. Recently focused on agentic problem solving and LLM-driven tooling, he has designed prompt/evaluation frameworks, retrieval systems, and intelligent QA agents for Reality Labs/Meta. Brandon is a pragmatic problem-solver who treats engineering like an athlete’s craft, practicing fundamentals daily and turning ambiguous challenges into reliable products. He pairs deep debugging and reverse-engineering chops with a customer-first mindset, having improved developer experiences, plugins, and large-scale test systems throughout his career. Based in Arlington, Washington, he enjoys making life better through software and thrives on mentoring and cross-disciplinary collaboration.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Information Technology, Information Technology at Arlington High School
java, dartlang, php, html5, sql, javascript, node.js, css, c#