Brandon Risell
Senior Application Engineer
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrandon Risell is a Senior Application Engineer with 11 years of experience building mobile-first and edge AI experiences, currently working with Rust and Android to bring AI to constrained devices. He has led and grown engineering teams, shipped Android and iOS apps across phone, tablet, and TV platforms, and architected backend systems for scale and verification workflows. Brandon contributes to prominent open-source projects like DefinitelyTyped, improving TypeScript definitions for Google Cast integrations, reflecting a careful, cross-platform systems mindset. Based in Charlottesville, he pairs hands-on development—Jetpack, Compose, Kotlin, SwiftUI—with practical leadership that clears obstacles for engineers to do their best work. An early mobile entrepreneur, he also has a knack for hardware-adjacent interfaces, from touchscreen soda machines to Cast-enabled media experiences.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at California State University, Stanislaus
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (12)
typescript10
typescript-definitions10
typescripts10
type-definition10
typescript-types10
enums10
api-design9
kotlin6
android-jetpack-compose6
azure-blob-storage6
compiler-errors6
android6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
Sep 2019 - Nov 2019
The repository for high quality TypeScript type definitions.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 6 commits, 5 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Brandon's commits primarily involve updating and converting types related to the `chromecast-caf-receiver` library within the `definitelytyped` repository. They refactored code by converting union types to enums and updating data structures to align with the Google Cast SDK. This included modifying message structures, error codes, and state management, demonstrating a focus on improving the type definitions and ensuring compatibility with the underlying framework.
typescriptdefinitiondtstypingstypescript-definitions
brandonrisell/blog
Dec 2017 - May 2019
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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