Brandon Y
Manager - Platform Engineering
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrandon Y is a platform engineering manager in the San Francisco Bay Area with eight years of professional software experience and a foundation in Enterprise Java from Raytheon and Socotra. He blends hands-on full‑stack skills—JavaScript/Node/React and Postgres—with platform engineering leadership, guiding infrastructure and developer productivity at scale. Unusually, he interrupted his tech career to found a publishing business that produced three USA Today Bestsellers and sold over 1M copies, then returned to software with product-minded engineering instincts. He has built data ingestion and analytics tools using Java, Solr, and cloud technologies, and prototyped internal tooling that saved hours of manual work through automation. A former teaching fellow, he also mentors engineers and has experience translating user needs into production systems. Brandon pairs entrepreneurial curiosity with disciplined engineering, favoring practical solutions that ship.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Computer Science, BA, Computer Science at Cornell UniversityFullstack Academy of Code
Github Skills (13)
diagram10
javascript10
whiteboard9
full-stack3
natural-language-processing2
multiplayer-game2
hosting2
geocoding2
python2
socket-io1
websocket1
multiplayer1
nodejs1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
brandonjyee/UltWolf
Aug 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:10 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 6 days
brandonjyee/WebAppSkeleton
Jan 2019 - Mar 2019
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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