Brandon Nickell
Senior Backend API Engineer at Boston Red Sox
Spring, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrandon Nickell is a Senior Backend/API Engineer with 12 years of experience building high-performance systems for sports and media organizations. His career blends low-latency C++ metric engines and Java Spring APIs with modern cloud-native microservices, ML-driven recommendation systems, and production DevOps practices. At Major League Baseball he created new Statcast and tracking metrics and optimized real-time processing pipelines, and more recently he led backend and infrastructure for a blockchain music startup before joining the Boston Red Sox. Comfortable across languages and stacks, he pairs compiler- and systems-level rigor from his early C++ work with practical mentorship and incident leadership in production. Based in Spring, Texas, he also brings an entrepreneurial creative streak from running an independent record label, reflecting a habit of applying analytic thinking to unconventional domains.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of California, Davis
English
Github Skills (16)
mojo9
music9
modular8
programming-language7
machine-learning7
rust6
ai6
max6
solana5
arweave4
data-access3
blockchain2
sdk2
ethereum2
javascript2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
bbnickell/nina-indexer
Jan 2023 - Apr 2023
Contributions:8 PRs, 105 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
bbnickell/bts
Mar 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:26 pushes in 2 months
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