Brandon Kalinowski
Lead Software Engineer at NIMBUS Control
United States
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Top SchoolBrandon Kalinowski is a Lead Software Engineer and seasoned broadcast technologist with 13 years of experience building livestreaming systems, cloud production workflows, and real-time broadcast operations. He blends engineering depth—Kubernetes, React, AWS and custom software—with hands-on broadcast skills like SDI over fiber, Dante, SRT and REMI to solve complex production problems on startup budgets. As a former Technical Director and Engineer in Charge, he’s comfortable leading teams under live, time-sensitive conditions while coaching creatives to tell better stories. Brandon also contributes to front-end open-source projects (improving SEO, PWA and analytics integrations for a popular Gatsby starter) and builds drones, reflecting a practical maker mentality beyond traditional software roles.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Producing, Bachelor's degree Producing at John Paul the Great Catholic UniversityBusiness Administration and Management General, Business Administration and Management General at Solano Community CollegeEngineering, Engineering at Fullerton CollegeBuckingham Charter Magnet High School
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Github Skills (12)
seo10
gatsby10
react10
javascript9
styled-components9
html9
css9
contentful8
netlify8
accessibility7
excel6
vba6
Programming languages (31)
Github contributions (5)
ryanwiemer/gatsby-starter-gcn
Apr 2018 - Dec 2018
A starter template to build amazing static websites with Gatsby, Contentful and Netlify
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:25 commits, 14 PRs, 35 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Brandon primarily contributed to improving the user interface and overall website structure of this Gatsby-based project. They fixed layout issues related to scrollbars, formatted code for consistency, and implemented SEO improvements including meta tags and open graph properties. Additionally, the user integrated Google Analytics for tracking and enhanced the contact form with a modal for success messages. They also added improvements for RSS, PWA, Sitemap, and sticky footer.
contentfulgatsbyreactstatic-sitegatsby-starter
brandonkal/runtypes
Jan 2020 - Jun 2024
Runtime validation for static types
Contributions:1 PR, 9 pushes, 7 branches in 4 years 5 months
runtime-validationvalidationruntimevalidatorstatic-types
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