Brendan Downing
Director Of Engineering at Zillow
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrendan Downing is a seasoned engineering leader with 11 years of experience building and scaling product teams across Boston-area tech companies. Currently Director of Engineering at Zillow after progressive leadership roles at LogRocket and Blue State Digital, he specializes in turning ambiguous product goals into reliably shipping teams and systems. He combines a hands-on engineering background with quantitative experience from earlier analytics and research roles, enabling strong cross-functional collaboration between product, data, and platform teams. Known for "shipping teams that ship," he focuses on delivery rhythms, developer experience, and pragmatic architecture rather than ivory-tower design. Brendan’s broad curiosity—summed up as “approximate knowledge of many things”—helps him connect domain experts and engineers to solve real customer problems. He holds an AB in History from Harvard, an unconventional background that informs his strategic, narrative-driven approach to technical leadership.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
AB History, AB History at Harvard University
Github Skills (40)
scroll9
request-uri9
depth9
php-library8
http-router8
api8
router8
php8
amazon7
sdk7
fullcontact6
google6
aws6
http6
python6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
bmd/bmd.github.io
May 2015 - Mar 2023
Contributions:4 PRs, 38 pushes, 4 branches in 7 years 11 months
bluestatedigital/bsd-api-python
Jun 2015 - Oct 2018
Python library for Blue State Digital's API
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
python-libraryapipythonblueapi-s
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