Stephen Brandon
Software Engineering Manager at Apple
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolStephen Brandon is a software engineering manager and Army veteran with 20+ years of hands-on experience building resilient infrastructure, leading high-performing teams, and shipping cost-conscious cloud platforms. Currently at Apple after leading cloud infrastructure and data storage at Brex, he specializes in marrying LLM infrastructure and local-first AI with pragmatic engineering management, privacy, and cost optimization. He founded Brex’s Data Storage team, drove a 60%+ AWS cost reduction, and built internal tooling like an MCP for monorepo queries and automated database upgrade workflows with zero downtime. An author of three nonfiction books on engineering leadership, AWS cost optimization, and data privacy—and a fiction co-author under E.S. Brandon—he blends technical rigor with narrative craft. He’s also a creative photographer, reflecting a habit of exploring new perspectives that informs both product design and team culture.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Information Technology, B.S., Information Technology at Western Governors University
Github Skills (18)
elixir8
phoenix-framework8
elixir-programming-language8
lag8
hex8
spinnaker7
velocity7
continuous-delivery6
continuous-deployment6
kafka4
golang4
kafka-consumer4
kubernetes3
cfml3
devops3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
slb350/ansible-burrow
Jul 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:7 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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