Brandon Ramirez
Member Of Technical Staff at OpenAI
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolBrandon Ramirez is a pragmatic software engineer and architect with 13 years of experience building high-performance, scalable web applications from CSS to SQL. Currently a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI, he led internationalization, feature flags, A/B testing, and availability monitoring for openai.com, directly improving sales leads and preventing outages. Previously he drove major platform efforts at Stripe—leading embedded onboarding, multi-region Connect resiliency, and measurable conversion and performance gains—and has a history of turning costly in-house tools into efficient open-source solutions. Brandon blends hands-on implementation with architectural leadership, optimizing developer productivity (e.g., cutting build times 4x) and operational reliability (reducing outages by orders of magnitude). He favors the right tool for the job—fluent in Java, JavaScript/Node, Elixir, and multiple databases—and routinely surfaces subtle product wins by instrumenting experiments and observability. Based in Chicago, he pairs startup agility with enterprise-grade practices to deliver cost-effective, measurable business impact.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Information Technology, Management, Psychology, BS, Information Technology, Management, Psychology at Rochester Institute of Technology
Stackoverflow
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261answers
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Github Skills (88)
postgresql10
javascript10
validation10
sql10
sqlite10
cockroachdb10
mysql10
sql-server10
query-builder10
shelljs10
oracle10
validate10
architecture9
unix9
memory-leaks9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
brandonramirez/grunt-jsonlint
Feb 2013 - Dec 2022
Validate JSON files from grunt.
Contributions:1 review, 132 commits, 43 PRs in 9 years 11 months
gruntvalidate-jsonvalidationvalidatorjson-files
brandonramirez/brandonsramirez.com
Feb 2015 - Apr 2026
My personal web site
Contributions:3 reviews, 18 PRs, 30 pushes in 11 years 4 months
reactweb-sitepersonal-web-siteweb-personalnextjs
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