Summary
Brenton Bairhalter is an empathy-driven technology leader and founder with 11 years of hands-on software experience and a track record of building and leading high-performing engineering teams. He moved up through full-stack roles at Cars Commerce—from front-end developer to senior engineer and engineering manager—championing modular, test-driven designs and mentoring peers through pair programming and coaching. A pragmatic polyglot, he has shipped production systems using Elixir/Phoenix, Go, React and a variety of web and ad-tech tools (Kafka, Prebid, Google Ad Manager), blending product-minded engineering with business acumen. Brenton excels at translating complex requirements into extensible, reusable architectures while keeping projects on schedule and fostering strong team culture. Now running his own company in San Diego, he combines entrepreneurial grit with a specialty in rich web applications and embedded systems (Nerves). Colleagues describe him as personable and creative—someone who brings technical depth without losing sight of user experience and commercial impact.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS Marketing, BS Marketing at Miami University