Brandon Rule
Full Stack Engineer at ElevenLabs
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolBrandon Rule is a Staff+ full-stack engineer and architect with 12+ years building AI-powered applications, developer tools, and distributed systems, currently focused at ElevenLabs. He specializes in TypeScript/Python stacks, LLM integration, AI/ML pipelines, and VS Code extension development—most visibly as the founder of Cursorless, an open-source voice-coding extension with 1k+ GitHub stars and conference talks. Brandon has led teams to productionize ML deployment pipelines and designed infrastructure-as-code solutions, while also shipping full end-to-end agentic AI products like pi.dev and front-end architectures for sketch.dev. Comfortable across cloud platforms (AWS/GCP), he blends hands-on engineering with product intuition and has a track record of turning research-grade ideas into widely used developer tooling. A Stanford-trained engineer who frequently contributions to voice-command projects (e.g., Talon), he brings both deep technical craft and community-driven momentum to developer-facing AI systems.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Stanford University
Github Skills (14)
javascript10
tal10
vscode-extension10
python10
react10
front-end-development9
ui-design9
markdown-it9
uid9
markdown9
typescripts8
typescript8
typescript-types8
r6
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
cursorless-dev/cursorless
Feb 2021 - Jan 2023
Don't let the cursor slow you down
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:3209 reviews, 473 commits, 1408 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Brandon appears to be working on a VS Code extension for voice coding. Their primary focus is on adding new functionality to the extension, specifically the ability to provide more styling of the text based on which tokens are targeted. The commits demonstrate a deep understanding of React, Javascript, and how to create VS Code extensions.
talonvoiceslowvscodevoice-codingvscode-extension
talonhub/community
Jan 2021 - Jan 2023
Voice command set for Talon, community-supported.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:299 reviews, 112 commits, 102 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Brandon contributed extensively to the Talon voice command project, adding new features and refining existing functionality. Their work includes implementing search engine integration, enabling voice control for VSCode, and enhancing the command server. They also worked on improving code readability and robustness, including adding exception handling and refactoring existing code.
talontalonvoicevimwindowsin-progress
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