Hi, I'm Brendan
About Me
Software Engineer | Full Stack Dev | Designer
I'm Brendan, a full-stack software engineer based in NYC. My experiences have taught me how to build beautiful user interfaces and captivating landing pages, as well as build backend services and APIs to support them.
My journey began in in my Freshman Year at Stevens Institute of Technology. Specifically, Intro to Programming for Engineers. I fell in love with coding and my passion granted me an opportunity to apply for Launchpad, a start accelerator. Launchpad gave me the opportunity, know-how, and support to start a Company: Quae.
Launchpad introduced me to some amazing people and taught me how to build technology that could address real world problems. I began researching about blockchain technology and smart contract development, and soon began competing in ETH Global Hackathons. Over the course of 3 years, I formed Cabal Labs - we built a number of projects that were awarded prizes at the hackathons, these winnings were re-invested to help us continue to build and grow the community.
In the years since exiting Stevens and Launchpad, I've been focused on growing my skills at places such as PLM and Trader Interactive. My skill set has allowed me to make an impact at the places I work and grow my technical skills along the way.
In my spare time, I love cycling 🚲, playing pool 🎱, cooking 🧑🍳, motor sports 🏎️, and I two orange cats named Beans and Garbanzo 🐈🐈
Trader Interactive
Learn MoreSoftware Engineer II
I'm currently a Software Engineer II at Trader Interactive. I began here as a software engineer focused on full-stack development using Node.js (especially NestJS), and got a lot of experience with AWS, APIs, and database design.
Over time, I took on more responsibility as team lead for the Customer Management Project, where my team built a new API layer that brought together a bunch of external systems and really improved customer onboarding (cutting ticket times from several days to less than one). Making sense of legacy data and integrating it with our new platform was a big part of the challenge.
After moving up to lead a pod of engineers, I started shaping the technical roadmap, prioritizing our work, and advocating for improvements to how we build and maintain things. I focused a lot on modernizing legacy systems, improving developer tools, and collaborating with product to push forward on modernization projects.
I also helped onboard new hires, shared documentation, and worked to refine our agile processes—always looking for ways to streamline development and make sure we're keeping up with the needs of the business.
PLM Fleet
Learn MoreAssociate Software Engineer
I worked as a Software Engineer at PLM Fleet. I gained experience in .NET development and improved my proficiency with Azure App Services, Dev Ops, and Deployment. I also passed a Microsoft Certification in Dynamics 365 Fundamentals.
Within 3 months there, I was leading development on 2 "long overdue" projects that my skill set was best suited for. I lead a team to rebuild the website for selling end-of-life trailers, which both improved the customer experience and reduced a 2 month manual process of populating the website at the end of every year to something that would be continuously updated via existing workflows and an integration to the core database. I also lead the development of integrating Power BI into the customer Portal, which allowed customers to dynamically visualize their data.
Cabal Labs is an organization I helped found with 3 friends in the weeks following the ETH Bogotá 2022 Hackathon. At its core, Cabal Labs stands to promote, build, and maintain software that aligns with our mission: liberation through technology
We evolved Cabal labs into a DAO which has allowed us to collaborate with more people, build a community, and allocate funds.
As an organization, we attended 6 ETH Global Hackathon's. At these hackathons we were able to build a number of projects that were awarded prizes. These winnings were re-invested to help us continue to build and grow the community.
Smile Now started as a discord channel in a server I created for my birthday party. My friend (and co-founder of Quae)Sam saw what it could be if it was a stand alone app. He created an MVP and his family loved it. We decided to build Smile Now Cris onto the project
We wanted to get into a beta phase as quickly as possible - so we gathered in my kitchen and build a 99.9% shippable app in 24 hours. By the end of the week it was passed review and on the app store.
Smile Now makes taking pictures fun. We made the process of creating and joining a party a total of only 3 clicks. Once a party has been activated random party goers will be notified to take a candid photo. By the end of the night, everyone will have gotten to take or pose for a photo. Nobody has to gather everyone to take a big group shot.
I founded Quae to address a problem I saw in the world: people aren't listened to by their leaders. Quae empowers people to be heard in their community and those elected to represent them.
Quae solves this problem by taking a new approach to how we vote. Right now, you only get to vote once every 4 years. Some problems can't wait 4 years. To take action today, people can use Quae to verifiably vote on projects, problems, or concerns in their community and use the results to create the change that is needed today.