Brandon Him is a Senior Solutions Engineer with 11 years of experience helping enterprises deploy reliable, federated APIs and secure customer identity solutions, currently focused on helping teams trust the code their AI agents write. He blends hands-on engineering (front-end React Native contributions like react-native-masonry with 1M+ open-source downloads) with pre-sales architecture and complex POC delivery across North America at Apollo and Qodo. Comfortable bridging developer ergonomics and enterprise constraints, he has a track record of turning customer problems into automation and prototypes that ship at scale. Raised in a factory family, he frames software work as a modern “software factory,” and increasingly thinks about the implications of autonomous, agentic users on distribution and product design. Based in Philly, he balances technical leadership with prolific OSS activity and a habit of building things in his spare time.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Information Technology, Bachelor of Science (BS) Information Technology at Drexel University
Associate of Science (A.S.) Natural Sciences, Associate of Science (A.S.) Natural Sciences at College of DuPage
:raised_hands: A pure JS react-native component to render a masonry~ish layout for images with support for dynamic columns, progressive image loading, device rotation, on-press handlers, and headers/captions.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:1 release, 169 commits, 59 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Brandon primarily contributed to the development of React Native components for a masonry-style image layout. Their work involved adding multi-column support, touchable highlight support, and rotation support. They also refactored component logic, added header and footer rendering and updated various components to reflect changes in the API.
Contributions:43 commits, 32 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 6 months
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Brandon Him - Senior Pre-Sales Architect at Apollo GraphQL