Summary
Brant Wellman is a senior software engineer based in Denver with 11 years of professional experience and deep expertise in backend Ruby on Rails systems, having worked across startups and remote teams to design and ship scalable, production-grade services. He specializes in Rails (4–7), Ruby 3.x, Sidekiq, PostgreSQL and test-driven workflows (RSpec, FactoryBot), and pairs that technical depth with a strong habit of mentoring junior engineers and driving clear technical design and backlog management. Brant has a track record of leading projects end-to-end—from user stories and architecture to deployment on platforms like Heroku—and brings modern frontend fluency (Hotwire, Stimulus, Tailwind, React) to bridge product and engineering. He’s drawn to mission-driven teams and known for creating growth-oriented team cultures that elevate code quality and developer skills. A non-obvious strength: his background spans biology and formal software training, giving him a systems-thinking perspective that informs pragmatic, data-informed engineering decisions.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Turing School of Software & Design