Summary
Brendan Sailer is a Senior Software Engineer based in Seattle with six years of experience building cloud-native systems and mission-critical software. A Notre Dame CS graduate, he moved from internships and engineering roles at startups and financial firms into defense-focused microservices at Boeing before joining Microsoft, where he advanced to Senior SDE. He brings strong backend skills in C++, Go, Python, and containerized testing—having introduced Docker Compose and Kubernetes-based CI patterns that reduced defects in production. Brendan blends disciplined testing and automation with pragmatic delivery, improving developer productivity and call efficiency in prior roles. Outside core engineering, he has a track record of mentoring students and standardizing test environments, signaling both technical depth and a commitment to team enablement.
6 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Notre Dame