Brandon Watanabe
Student Research Assistant at San Francisco State University
Rancho Palos Verdes, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrandon Watanabe is a full-stack software engineer and current Co-Instructor at San Francisco State University with a decade of hands-on experience building web and embedded systems. He combines practical teaching and curriculum development—creating course materials and holding regular office hours for computer graphics, networks, and teacher-credential cohorts—with industry experience in firmware and full-stack testing using JavaScript, Vue.js, C#, .NET, SQL Server, Python, and AWS tooling. His background includes automating embedded power measurements at Bigfoot Biomedical and integrating full-stack tests and CI/CD workflows at Ventacity Systems, reflecting a comfort with both low-level hardware concerns and cloud-backed application delivery. Pursuing an MS in Computer Science while actively instructing gives him a rare mix of academic rigor and practical mentorship, and he often turns classroom artifacts into reusable Python applications and course tooling.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at San Francisco State UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at Solano Community CollegeComputer Science, Computer Science at Jessup University
Github Skills (13)
ruby9
javascript9
html9
nodejs9
css9
web-development8
ruby-on-rails8
java4
spring-boot4
testing4
tdd4
backend3
mobi2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Paraknight/CS-Resources-From-Reddit
Dec 2019 - Mar 2020
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
Paraknight/CS125_Project5
Oct 2019 - Jan 2020
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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