Brendan Batliner
Lead Software Engineer at Capital One
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrendan Batliner is a Lead Software Engineer in Chicago with 11 years of hands-on experience building reliable systems across front-end and back-end stacks. He’s led teams and tooling at fast-growing analytics and trading firms, driving developer platforms, CI, and automated testing frameworks from greenfield to production. Brendan contributes to notable open-source projects—helping modernize HubSpot’s vex dialog library and enhancing hapi’s bell OAuth plugin—demonstrating comfort across UI, Node.js backends, and QA automation. He co-founded a scheduling startup used by universities (acquired in 2017), pairing product-minded engineering with operational rigor. Known for diving into core JS and C++ code when needed, he blends leadership with a coder’s curiosity that’s been active since 2011.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Illinois Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at University of Nebraska-LincolnIllinois Mathematics and Science Academy
French, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (25)
javascript10
messaging10
facebook-api10
apidoc10
testing10
hapi10
message-system10
message-handler10
api10
jestjs10
message-bus10
nodejs10
oauth10
messagebox10
instagram-api8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
HubSpot/vex
Jul 2016 - Feb 2018
A modern dialog library which is highly configurable and easy to style. #hubspot-open-source
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 95 commits, 30 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Brendan made several commits related to the 3.0.0 release of the vex library. Their contributions involved significant changes to the `dist/vex.combined.js` file, including the addition of new functionality to the library. These changes suggest involvement in updating the core functionality of the library, most likely implementing new features or fixing bugs related to the release. The user's work includes changes to the main javascript file, indicating they were working on the library code.
dialog-librarydialogconfigurablehubspot
hapijs/bell
Feb 2016 - Aug 2016
Third-party login plugin for hapi
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 1 comment in 6 months
Contributions summary:Brendan primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and testing of the `bell` plugin for hapi. They implemented a `skipProfile` option, allowing for more flexible OAuth configurations. Additionally, the user wrote comprehensive tests for the `skipProfile` feature, ensuring the plugin's behavior under various scenarios with different providers like Twitter and Instagram. They also addressed a bug and improved the handling of parameters in the twitter provider, expanding its capabilities.
apihapipartyhapijsthird-party
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