Brandon Sammons
Vice President, Software at SXSW
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrandon Sammons is a Los Angeles–based software leader with 11 years of experience building and scaling event-driven products, currently serving as Vice President of Software at SXSW. He blends hands-on engineering (Ruby on Rails, React, JavaScript, FileMaker) with product strategy, data-informed design thinking, and cross-functional team leadership to deliver both internal platforms and customer-facing experiences. A former CTO & founder of a tech services non-profit, he brings deliberate mission-driven engineering practices and volunteer-driven talent development to his work. As an adjunct faculty member recognized three times for outstanding teaching, he translates complex technical concepts into accessible design and curriculum. His background in electrical engineering and materials research, combined with an MS in Integrated Design, gives him a rare technical empathy for both hardware-adjacent systems and user-centered software.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical Engineering Micro and Nano Devices and Systems Math Minor, Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical Engineering Micro and Nano Devices and Systems Math Minor at Texas State UniversityTransferred, Transferred at Central Texas CollegeMaster of Science - MS Integrated Design Business and Technology, Master of Science - MS Integrated Design Business and Technology at USC Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young AcademyProgramming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
bsamm/models-of-impact
May 2018 - Oct 2020
A digital version of the invent phase of the Models of Impact game.
Contributions:9 PRs, 12 pushes, 1 issue in 2 years 5 months
phase
bsamm/idea-sharing
Dec 2018 - Jun 2019
Contributions:9 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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