Brandon Ly
Senior Software Engineer - Education AI
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrandon Ly is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building cloud-native web platforms, developer tooling, and AI-driven education products at companies like MongoDB and Bright Health. He blends full-stack expertise in TypeScript/Node and React with hands-on cloud infrastructure work using AWS CDK, ECS, Lambda, and Azure Cosmos DB to reduce build times and automate developer workflows. An active open-source contributor, he has made substantive formatter and language-handling contributions to the popular Biome toolchain, improving its Grit formatter and LSP integration. Brandon’s background in ML research and embedded systems gives him a practical edge when bridging data-driven features and performant production services. Based in Minneapolis, he also organizes the Twin Cities Open Source Developers community and balances code with life as a dog dad.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
General Studies, General Studies at University of MinnesotaMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Augsburg UniversityAssociate of Science - AS, Computer Science, Associate of Science - AS, Computer Science at Normandale Community College
English
Github Skills (10)
static-code-analysis10
rust10
javascript4
typescript4
typescripts4
typescript-types4
json3
css3
web-content3
webpages3
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
biomejs/biome
Sep 2024 - Oct 2024
A toolchain for web projects, aimed to provide functionalities to maintain them. Biome offers formatter and linter, usable via CLI and LSP.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Formatter Engineer
Back-end Developer & Formatter EngineerContributions:13 reviews, 8 PRs, 25 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Brandon contributed significantly to the development of the Biome toolchain, primarily focusing on implementing and enhancing the Grit formatter. Their work included initial configuration for the Grit formatter, adding tests, and integrating the Grit file handler into the service. They also contributed to adding logic for formatting features related to patterns, predicates, and lists within the Grit language, directly impacting its functionality.
clilintertoolchaincssformatter
branberry/docs-java
Jul 2023 - Jun 2024
Contributions:8 PRs, 124 pushes, 6 branches in 10 months
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