Brenden Vaughan
Sr. Backend Engineer at Quanata
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrenden Vaughan is a senior backend engineer based in Boulder, Colorado with eight years of focused software engineering experience and a long career background in malware research and security. He specializes in designing performant Go backends and cloud-native architectures, having rebuilt legacy mobile security infrastructures and led backend authorization and TOTP two-factor implementations that materially reduced support cases. Brenden blends hands-on engineering with technical leadership and product ownership, regularly translating evolving stakeholder requirements into pragmatic, production-ready solutions. His roots in threat research and team management give him a unique security-first perspective that informs system design and automation. Comfortable across the stack—from APIs and auth services to Angular login portals—he favors measurable results like higher productivity and sustained efficiency gains. Outside of engineering, his lifelong obsession with building software surfaces in a practical curiosity for solving complex, interdisciplinary challenges.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts and Sciences Psychology, Bachelor of Arts and Sciences Psychology at University of Colorado BoulderFairview High School
Github Skills (11)
addon7
code-generator6
api6
code-generation6
unity3d5
go4
golang4
csharp4
swagger3
game-development3
swagger-codegen2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
vaughanb/UnityMultiplayerARPG_LootBag
Feb 2020 - Jan 2022
Contributions:24 releases, 52 commits, 43 pushes in 1 year 10 months
vaughanb/CursorJ
Mar 2026 - Jun 2026
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 tag in 3 months
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