Brandon Teng
Senior Software Engineer at GitHub
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolBrandon Teng is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building resilient, testable web applications and APIs across startup and enterprise environments, now contributing at GitHub from Chicago. He blends front-end craftsmanship—evidenced by contributions to the popular styled-components project—with backend design for regulated healthcare products, having helped architect FDA-authorized digital therapeutics at Pear Therapeutics. A pragmatic engineering lead who values trust, transparency, and early communication, he has led teams at STEEZY and modernized stacks at ThoughtWorks and Capital One to improve delivery, testing, and observability. Trained originally in chemical engineering with formal UX design study, he brings a systems-thinking approach and a user-centered sensibility to software architecture. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex, regulated requirements into auditable, secure, and maintainable systems that endure in chaotic product environments.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Chemical Engineering (Nanotechnology), Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Chemical Engineering (Nanotechnology) at University of Southern CaliforniaUI/UX Design, UI/UX Design at DesignlabBachelor of Science (B.S.) Chemical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Chemical Engineering at University of Illinois Chicago
English, Chinese
Github Skills (10)
jes10
css-in-js10
javascript10
styled-components10
enzyme10
jestjs10
react10
enzyme-testing10
testing10
css9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
styled-components/styled-components
Nov 2017 - Dec 2017
Visual primitives for the component age. Use the best bits of ES6 and CSS to style your apps without stress 💅
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 9 comments in 11 days
Contributions summary:Brandon contributed to the `styled-components` repository by adding and modifying test cases related to the `StyleSheetManager` component. They focused on ensuring the component functions correctly with nested instances and within different contexts, including server-side rendering and iframes. Their work primarily involved writing React components and verifying the correct application of styles generated by `styled-components`. They also addressed warnings and merged code changes.
reactagecssjavascriptcss-in-js
bteng22/monorepo
Apr 2024 - Feb 2025
Magnificent multiple-manifest monorepo.
Contributions:6 PRs, 18 pushes, 7 branches in 10 months
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