Brandon Sorgdrager
Founding Engineer - Full Stack at Pillar
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrandon Sorgdrager is a Founding Full Stack Engineer with 9 years of hands-on experience bridging development, infrastructure, and reliability engineering across startups and large enterprises. His background spans Site Reliability at PayPal, senior systems engineering in medical devices, and founding-stage product work at Pillar, giving him a rare blend of production-grade automation, security-minded infrastructure, and product-focused coding. Passionate about AI, machine learning, and automation, he combines creative problem solving with deep systems knowledge to move fast and fail smart. Outside work he channels that maker mindset into modding RC cars and 3D printing, reflecting a hardware-adjacent curiosity that informs his practical approach to engineering.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Technology at Western Iowa Tech
Github Skills (200)
env10
paypal-sandbox10
paypal10
scanner10
pipeline10
docker10
scanning10
async9
monitoring9
mesh9
continuous-delivery9
charts9
helm9
github-api9
golang9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
bsord/react-register
Jul 2018 - Apr 2020
Contributions:57 PRs, 141 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 9 months
bsord/bsord.github.io
Sep 2020 - May 2024
Landing page for all things bsord
Contributions:1 release, 4 PRs, 51 pushes in 3 years 8 months
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