Brennen Peters
Founder at Slawp AI
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolBrennen Peters is an experienced full-stack engineer and founder with 11 years of shipping web, mobile, and desktop applications across education, food discovery, music, and stealth startups from Austin, TX. He blends hands-on engineering—React, React Native, Electron, Node, Neo4j and more—with product-minded architecture, having co-founded multiple ventures and led engineering at companies like Macmillan Learning and Parallel Tracks. Brennen has a track record of improving user experiences and deployment reliability, including front-end contributions to a widely used React Native chat UI where he fixed keyboard/height bugs and improved auto-scrolling. Comfortable working from data-platform design to polished client UIs, he’s delivered projects that shortened client onboarding cycles and generated measurable business impact. Currently Noun #244 and leading a stealth startup, he pairs entrepreneurial curiosity with pragmatic engineering. His background in economics and early experience launching niche consumer products give him a rare mix of product intuition and technical depth.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS Economics & Finance, BS Economics & Finance at Trinity University
Github Skills (8)
component-development10
javascript10
react-native10
mobile-development9
chat9
uid8
front-end-development8
ui-design8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
FaridSafi/react-native-gifted-chat
Mar 2016 - Mar 2016
💬 The most complete chat UI for React Native
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 7 comments in 8 days
Contributions summary:Brennen focused on enhancing the user interface and functionality of the React Native chat component. They implemented features such as dynamic keyboard behavior and auto-scrolling, improving the user experience. They also made adjustments to the text input component, specifically addressing height calculations and responsiveness. Additionally, the user fixed bugs related to height adjustments when the keyboard is shown and hidden, and they refactored code for consistency.
react-nativechat
lmnop/lava
Jun 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:92 commits, 92 pushes, 9 branches in 3 months
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