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 (188)
paypal10
helm10
gitops10
scanning10
react10
scanner9
monitoring9
continuous-delivery9
charts9
paypal-sandbox9
kustomize9
pipeline9
github-api9
trigger9
reddit9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
bsord/react-register
Jul 2018 - Apr 2020
Contributions:57 PRs, 141 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 9 months
bsord/pretty-default-backend
Sep 2020 - Feb 2021
A simple good looking yet neutral backend for nginx ingress controller
Contributions:138 commits, 64 PRs, 136 pushes in 5 months
backendnginx-ingress
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