Brent Burdick
Co-Founder at Confluence Labs
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrent Burdick is a self-taught software engineer and founder based in the San Francisco Bay Area with seven years of hands-on experience building MVPs and full-stack architectures for six-plus startups. After leaving college in 2022 to learn coding and ship product quickly, he progressed into roles delivering end-to-end systems and now co-founded Confluence Labs to scale that impact. He blends a pragmatic, product-first engineering approach with an economics background from UNC Chapel Hill, which informs data-driven tradeoffs and lean business thinking. Comfortable across front-end and back-end stacks, Brent focuses on rapid iteration, clear architectural choices, and turning ambiguous requirements into usable products. His motto—“keep your head in the clouds and your feet on the ground”—reflects a balance of big-picture vision and hands-on execution.
7 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
LaunchX Entrepreneurship ProgramBachelor of Science - BS, Economics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Economics at The University of North Carolina at Chapel HillHigh School Diploma, College/University Preparatory and Advanced High School/Secondary Diploma Program, High School Diploma, College/University Preparatory and Advanced High School/Secondary Diploma Program at Oak Ridge High School
Github Skills (93)
wysiwyg10
js10
corenlp10
rich-text10
language-server10
javascript9
wallet9
polygon9
prosemirror9
segmentation9
parsing9
react9
rich-text-editor9
tiptap9
vscode-extension9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Brentably/summon-lend-frontend
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:71 pushes, 7 branches in 2 months
Brentably/smoothie-cli
Apr 2023 - May 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 61 pushes, 4 branches in 23 days
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