Brenden Soares
Lead Software Developer at Surge, LLC
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
Summary
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RockstarBrenden Soares is a Lead Software Developer with 12 years of experience building full-stack and mobile solutions, currently running Alpha Spark Inc. and consulting through Surge to help businesses turn product ideas into production-quality software. He blends hands-on engineering—spanning iOS, front-end, and back-end architecture—with leadership in system design, developer productivity, and security standards from roles at Pluto TV and Shift4. As a contributor to the prominent Revel web framework, he implemented case-insensitive template support and improved documentation and styling for the project site, reflecting attention to both infrastructure and developer experience. Brenden is experienced in taking projects from concept to scalable systems, having led mobile and billing platform efforts as well as internal tooling and QA processes. Based in Las Vegas, he enjoys partnering with business leaders to architect tailored digital solutions and guide teams toward best practices. A practical problem-solver, he often reduces complexity in codebases and docs to improve usability for both users and fellow developers.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (10)
html10
golang10
css10
doc10
web-framework10
go10
templating10
revel10
documentation10
testing9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
revel/revel
Nov 2013 - Apr 2022
A high productivity, full-stack web framework for the Go language.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 4 reviews, 187 commits in 8 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Brenden contributed to the Revel framework by implementing case-insensitive view template support and merging in updates from another repository. This involved modifications to the template loading mechanism, and the addition of new test cases for the mailer functionality. The user also made changes to include third-party bootstrap css.
golangproductivityfull-stackweb-applicationframework
revel/revel.github.io
Mar 2014 - Sep 2022
Revel manual and docs
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:56 commits, 24 PRs, 39 pushes in 8 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Brenden primarily focused on updating and refactoring the Revel documentation website. Their contributions included updating import paths, sample URLs, and resolving merge conflicts. They also refined the website's styling, reducing its complexity and improving its visual presentation. Furthermore, the user updated layout elements and navigation, improving the user experience.
golangasciidoctormanualjekyllrevel
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