Brett Batie
Founder at BSB Ventures LLC
Traverse City, Michigan, United States
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Top SchoolBrett Batie is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 12 years of experience building scalable web and cloud solutions, now focused on Filerev, a tool that declutters Google Drive and reduces storage costs. He combines deep backend expertise (Java, C#, MySQL, Linux) with practical product instincts honed at Smartsheet and through multiple entrepreneurial ventures. Brett has a track record of optimizing large-scale systems—cutting hosting costs by over 60% in a prior role—and shipping SDKs and integrations used by developer ecosystems. Comfortable leading teams and managing infrastructure, he’s equally hands-on in code, APIs, and UX improvements. Based in Traverse City, Michigan, he balances product-building with running BSB Ventures and raising four children, bringing pragmatic leadership and long-term operational savvy to startups.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computing & Software Systems; Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computing & Software Systems; Computer Science at University of Washington
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Github Skills (62)
server-side10
javascript10
smartsheet10
typescript10
nestjs10
nodejs10
microservices10
csharp10
js-framework10
nest10
scalable10
nodejs-framework9
cnode9
dotnet9
signature9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
brettbatie/dotfiles
Oct 2013 - Feb 2021
My configs
Contributions:267 commits, 4 PRs, 38 pushes in 7 years 5 months
karabinerconfigsconfigdotfileshammerspoon
smartsheet-platform/backup-java
Feb 2014 - Feb 2015
A simple command-line based backup tool for backing up an organization's Smartsheet data.
Contributions:21 commits, 1 push in 11 months
command-line-toolbackup-toolsmartsheetbackupcli
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