Brandon Suzuki
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Amplify
Hawaii, United States
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Top SchoolBrandon Suzuki is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with over a decade of experience building educational and communication-focused software, currently leading technical efforts at Amplify from his base in Hawaii. His career blends hands-on engineering and people leadership, rising through roles from Senior Software Engineer to Engineering Manager, Staff Engineer, and now Senior Staff since 2012 at Amplify with earlier stints at Oracle, Symantec, and eServGlobal. He brings deep product-focused engineering instincts to learning technology, emphasizing how software can measurably improve learning outcomes and collaboration. A Carnegie Mellon BS and Stanford MA alumnus, he pairs strong academic foundations with long-term product stewardship. An often-overlooked strength is his global perspective shaped by years teaching in Japan early in his career, which informs his empathy for diverse learners and communicators.
10 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Punahou SchoolBachelor of Science - BS, Bachelor of Science - BS at Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer ScienceBS, BS at Carnegie Mellon UniversityMA, MA at Stanford University
japanese (conversational)
Stackoverflow
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (2)
amplify-education/canvas-lms
Apr 2020 - Nov 2022
The open LMS by Instructure, Inc.
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 2 years 7 months
lmsopen-lmsincinstructure
amplify-education/asiaq
May 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:21 commits, 6 PRs, 17 pushes in 2 months
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