Brandon Sneed
SDK Platform Architect
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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RockstarBrandon Sneed is an SDK Platform Architect in Portland with 15 years building high-performance libraries and cross-platform SDKs in Rust, Swift, Objective-C, C++, and C. He led the modernization of Segment’s SDK platform at Twilio, architecting Analytics‑Swift and a shared JavaScript engine that was ported to React Native, Kotlin, C#, and Flutter, and created real-time capture tooling (AnalyticsLive) adopted across multiple platforms. Previously he stabilized and scaled analytics SDKs at Segment and introduced modularization and architecture patterns at companies like eBay and WalmartLabs, consistently turning fragile codebases into production-grade systems. An active contributor to notable open-source analytics projects (e.g., segmentio/analytics-react-native and analytics-ios), he focuses on build/integration robustness and cross-platform data handling. Known for bridging low-level systems work with pragmatic developer workflows, he often surfaces platform-level improvements that reduce technical debt and speed shipping.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (26)
json10
ios10
mobile-development10
react-native10
data-serialization10
serialization10
data-storage10
android10
swift10
testing9
unit-testing9
testflight9
javascript8
objective-c8
typescript7
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
segmentio/analytics-ios
Jul 2019 - Jan 2023
The hassle-free way to integrate analytics into any iOS application.
Role in this project:
iOS Mobile Developer
iOS Mobile DeveloperContributions:18 releases, 21 reviews, 55 commits in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Brandon primarily contributed to the Segment analytics-ios library by addressing various issues and implementing features related to data handling and library functionality. Their work includes promoting and preparing releases, fixing bugs, and refactoring code related to data serialization, storage, and user identification. A significant portion of the work involved adapting the library to use JSON for data storage, replacing the previous plist format. The user also contributed to testing and ensuring the correct handling of various data types, including nil values and user traits.
ios-application
segmentio/analytics-react-native
Jul 2019 - Mar 2021
The hassle-free way to add analytics to your React-Native app.
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)
Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)Contributions:2 releases, 25 reviews, 18 commits in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Brandon primarily focused on bug fixes and enhancements related to the Android and iOS implementations of the React Native analytics library. Their work included addressing issues with context passing, dependency references, and build configurations. The user also contributed to the integration of third-party SDKs and fixed issues related to building for newer React Native versions. A significant portion of their work involved modifying build and integration scripts for various platforms.
react-native-app
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