Brandon Shar
Staff AI Engineer at Babylist
Florida, United States
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Top SchoolBrandon Shar is a Staff AI Engineer with over a decade of full-stack and leadership experience building production systems and high-impact engineering teams. He focuses on applied AI—designing agentic systems, LLM-driven products, and generative tooling that directly solve business problems—while prioritizing simplicity and changeability so platforms stay easy to evolve. At ezCater he led the company’s Applied AI efforts, launching MCP servers, an LLM proxy, and the internal AI platform that powers workflows across onboarding, support, and marketplace operations. Previously he led full-stack and ML-integrated projects for energy and climate clients at BellaWatt and co-founded a SaaS startup, giving him strong product and infrastructure instincts. An active open-source contributor, he has contributed notable enhancements to the Laravel framework and co-maintains popular InertiaJS adapters with over a thousand stars. Based in Florida, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a philosophical attention to clarity that aims to leave systems and teams simpler than he found them.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science at New Jersey Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Philosophy at PennWest Clarion
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Github Skills (7)
application-framework10
app-framework10
web-framework10
php10
laravel10
laravel-mix10
testing8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
laravel/framework
Mar 2017 - Sep 2017
The Laravel Framework.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 12 PRs, 93 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Brandon contributed to the Laravel framework by adding new features and improving existing functionality. Their work includes adding the `tap` method to the query builder, refactoring event listener implementations, and adding a helper function. Furthermore, the user addressed various style issues within the codebase. The changes focused on enhancing core functionalities of the framework.
laravel-frameworklaravelphpframework
bellawatt/use-inputs
Apr 2020 - Aug 2022
Opinionated inputs package including context, query strings, and local storage
Contributions:2 reviews, 5 PRs, 15 pushes in 2 years 4 months
local-storagequerystoragestrings
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