Brax Excell
Principal Engineering Manager Tech Lead at Nava
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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SeniorBrax Excell is a Principal Engineering Manager and Tech Lead based in Minneapolis with eight years of hands-on experience building TypeScript/Python stacks and leading teams through cloud-native delivery on AWS. He has progressed from hands-on engineering roles to director and principal leadership at companies like Coforma and Nava, pairing technical depth in React, Node, D3 and CI/CD with a human-centered management style. Known for shipping pragmatic, well-tested systems, he blends product-minded architecture with people-first coaching to scale teams and maintain velocity. Outside work he brings curiosity and attention to detail—whether in crosswords, jazz, or crafting clean code—which informs his preference for elegant, maintainable solutions.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (48)
phone-number-input10
javascript10
css10
codebase10
math10
mlr10
graphql10
nodejs10
react10
cms9
displays9
certification9
fastest9
gatsby9
frontend9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
braxex/immigration-visualizer
Nov 2017 - Jan 2020
Contributions:80 commits, 2 PRs, 68 pushes in 2 years 2 months
reactdisplaysvisualizerjavascriptimmigration
Enterprise-CMCS/macpro-mdct-core
Sep 2023 - Jun 2024
mdct-core is a CMCS MDCT repo currently being used for spiking consolidation of CI actions.
Contributions:1 release, 8 reviews, 16 PRs in 9 months
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