Summary
Reuben Brandt is a senior data engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with a decade of software experience building reliable, test-driven systems at companies like Capital One and Funding Circle. He blends an ecologist’s observational rigor with pragmatic engineering—favoring data sanctity, iterative experiment design, and maintainable code to solve complex problems across backend APIs and data platforms. His background ranges from Ruby on Rails and modern frontend stacks to production-grade data engineering, informed by early research and fieldwork at Stanford that honed his skills in experimental design and collaborative project execution. Known for shipping well-tested, readable code on small teams, he brings curiosity from ecology into engineering decisions, often surfacing non-obvious insights about system behavior and data quality.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Project Management, Project Management at University of California, Berkeley
Bachelor of Science, Environmental Science, Bachelor of Science, Environmental Science at University of Redlands
French