Brandon Lico is an engineering leader with 11 years of software and systems experience, currently serving as Engineering Manager II at Uber in New York. He progressed through multiple technical and managerial roles at Uber after earlier work on Windows build systems at Microsoft and kernel-level projects during internships, giving him deep expertise in build infrastructure, dependency management, and distributed engineering teams. Brandon contributes to influential open-source tooling—most notably enhancements to Bazel Gazelle around proto libraries and repo updates—demonstrating practical DevOps and CI/CD instincts. He holds a BS in Computer Engineering with Highest Honors from Georgia Tech and combines hands-on implementation skills with people leadership to drive reliable, scalable build and deployment workflows. An under-the-radar strength is his long-term focus on build-system ergonomics, which helps teams move faster while keeping complex dependencies manageable.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Engineering, Highest Honors, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Engineering, Highest Honors at Georgia Institute of Technology
Gazelle is a Bazel build file generator for Bazel projects. It natively supports Go and protobuf, and it may be extended to support new languages and custom rule sets.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:1 release, 22 reviews, 24 commits in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Brandon contributed to the Bazel Gazelle project by implementing features related to proto libraries, including import prefix and strip import prefix attributes. They enhanced the `update-repos` command by adding build options for go_repository rules, which improves the project's build file generation capabilities. Further contributions involved fixing documentation and adding support for pruning unneeded rules. This demonstrates expertise in build file generation, dependency management, and potentially CI/CD configuration.
Gazelle is a Bazel build file generator for Go projects.
Contributions:70 pushes, 28 branches in 3 years 2 months
golangbazel-rulesbazelfile-generatorgazelle
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