Brandon Reiss
Staff Software Engineer at Frame AI
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrandon Reiss is a Staff Software Engineer and former co-founder and Principal Engineer of Frame AI, acquired by HubSpot, with 14 years building AI-driven products and core infrastructure. He blends low-level systems expertise—networking, graphics, databases—and distributed systems with modern AI/ML and containerized production deployments to turn business objectives into impactful technology. At HubSpot he focuses on leveraging unstructured conversational data to deliver proactive AI experiences for SMBs, drawing on Frame AI’s streaming generative architecture. He has led and scaled high-performance engineering teams, recruiting and retaining world-class talent while staying hands-on in design and code. An active contributor to foundational open-source projects, he’s fixed critical edge cases in widely used tools like pip, showing attention to robustness and developer experience. His background in academic research and hardware-software systems gives him an uncommon fluency across ML theory, embedded systems, and production engineering.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Science Machine Learning, Master’s Degree Computer Science Machine Learning at New York University
Github Skills (5)
packaging10
pip10
python10
testing10
pytest9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
pypa/pip
Dec 2016 - Apr 2017
The Python package installer
Role in this project:
Backend & QA Engineer
Backend & QA EngineerContributions:7 commits, 13 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Brandon contributed to the Python package installer, `pip`, by addressing issues related to relative file paths in editable installations. Their work involved modifying the `InstallRequirement` class to correctly handle relative paths and adding tests to verify this functionality. Additionally, they merged updates from the upstream master branch and refined test cases to prevent timeouts.
pythonpackage-installerpippackaginginstaller
ylecun/nyu-robotics
Feb 2012 - May 2012
Contributions:67 commits in 3 months
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