Brandon Rothweiler
Senior Software Engineer at Smartcar
New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrandon Rothweiler is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building resilient backend systems and user-facing applications, currently contributing at Smartcar from New Jersey. He modernized high-throughput financial services infrastructure at Charles Schwab, transforming legacy mainframe flows into Spring Boot microservices and designing real-time replication into distributed NoSQL. Comfortable across the full stack, he has rebuilt internal tools with React/Node and created interactive visualizations with D3, while also shipping backend features and tests in Python and Django. An active open-source contributor to Home Assistant and paperless-ngx, he has improved vehicle climate integrations and document-matching workflows, demonstrating attention to correctness with comprehensive tests. He blends pragmatic engineering, automation, and observability—creating reconciliation pipelines, Splunk dashboards, and robust CI-tested features—to keep production systems reliable at scale.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Stevens Institute of Technology
Github Skills (21)
lit-element10
javascript10
pytest10
python10
document-management10
django10
testing10
typescript10
asyncio10
typescript-types10
home-assistant10
typescripts10
frontend10
archiving9
web-components9
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
home-assistant/core
Feb 2021 - Jan 2023
:house_with_garden: Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:128 reviews, 41 commits, 55 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Brandon contributed to the Mazda integration within the Home Assistant core repository. Their primary focus was adding a climate platform to the Mazda integration, including the necessary tests. This involved writing Python code to integrate the climate control features of Mazda vehicles, and includes changes to support functions to define properties of the climate entities.
raspberry-pipythonhouseprivacy-firstasyncio
paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx
Feb 2023 - Oct 2024
A community-supported supercharged version of paperless: scan, index and archive all your physical documents
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 4 PRs, 8 comments in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Brandon primarily contributed to backend functionalities within the Django-based document management system. Their work included adding new features related to document matching algorithms, such as the ability to disable matching and implementing configurations for archive file generation. They also added tests to ensure the correct behavior of the codebase and made adjustments to the codebase to account for these new features and settings.
scanpdfpaperlessindexdocument-management
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