Brandon Morgado is a seasoned engineering leader with a decade of AWS-focused experience who currently serves as Director of Engineering, Platform at Minted while also co-founding and CTOing Werkx. He built and led the Site Reliability organization at Shipt, hiring and maturing specialist teams responsible for resiliency, observability, and incident management across a high-traffic microservice environment. Comfortable switching between hands-on engineering and strategic leadership, he has deep expertise in cloud-native stacks (TypeScript/Node/React, GraphQL, Postgres, and AWS) and a track record of shipping production-grade, scalable systems. Brandon’s background spans startups to enterprise—starting in telecom and energy systems—and he brings a practical, ops-first perspective shaped by early on-call and implementation roles. Based in Birmingham, Alabama, he pairs technical rigor from an engineering master’s with founder-level product and fundraising experience, making him adept at turning reliability goals into measurable business outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Masters of Engineering Information Engineering and Management, Masters of Engineering Information Engineering and Management at University of Alabama at Birmingham
EE Computer Engineering, EE Computer Engineering at Auburn University
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Brandon Morgado - Director Of Engineering, Platform