Brandon Wolfgang

Nashville, TN ยท jobs@-remove-brandonwolfgang.com

Knowledgable Software Platform Engineer with experience writing custom data integration code for a variety of client use cases as well as leveraging Agile, DevOps, and CI/CD deploying to large scale distributed enterprise platforms.

I also enjoy tinkering with technology, building websites, graphic design, photography, creating digital art, video editing, audio engineering, songwriting, and spending time outdoors.

Skills

Architecture
  • Email/SMTP
  • IP Networking
  • DNS
  • Microservices
  • RESTful APIs
  • SOAP APIs
  • SaaS/PaaS/IaaS
Languages, Operating Systems & Tools
  • Perl
  • JavaScript
  • Python
  • Git
  • Linux
  • bash
  • MacOS
  • Go
  • HTML5
  • CSS3
  • XML
  • XSLT
  • Java
  • php
Platform Development & Administration
  • Jira
  • NGINX
  • MySQL
  • LAMP
Data Management
  • MySQL
  • SQLite
  • MongoDB
Containers & Cloud

Experience

Lead Software Engineer

September 2024 - April 2026

Led development team integrating licensed software product into company's existing workflow, with focus on scalability and deployment efficiency.

Highlights:

  • Designed and developed an email data pipeline processing 500K+ records daily.
  • Created API-based CMS entity transfer tool reducing deployment time to production by minimum 50%.
  • Created custom reporting retrieval and formatting tool which reduced time to retrieve and format reports from 30 minutes to under 5 minutes.
  • Implemented comprehensive error handling and logging framework, improving system reliability and maintainability.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration and deployment of new features, resulting in a 20% increase in overall system performance.

Senior Software Engineer

September 2020 - August 2024

Doxim purchased Striata in September of 2020 but all roles and responsibilites remained essentially identical. Please see Striata entry below for more details.

Highlights:

  • Improved data processing efficiency by approximately 20% resulting in data center cost savings.
  • Improved configuration structure and templating process which improved project lead time by 15%.
  • Improved production deployment process and error checking, resulting in much smoother deployments.
  • Identified and patched critical security vulnerability, preventing potential catastrophic data breach.
  • Completely refactored and integrated multiple large scale projects into a single data pipeline which ultimately led to a 25% increase in processing speed.

Senior Software Engineer

April 2012 - September 2020

Email subject matter expert and data integration engineer. Development of custom DataSource (data integration) code packages and scripts. Management and maintenance of large scale enterprise level projects. Email design and development (static and responsive). Dynamic PDF design and development (handling submission of encrypted payment data). Setup and maintenance of email link/open tracking campaigns. Development of custom deployment and testing frameworks. Development of custom tools to facilitate internal business efficiency. Providing estimates and level of effort required to accommodate client requirements.

Highlights:

  • Improved data validation process within custom code and configuration resulting in better client and end user experience.
  • Spearheaded the use of responsive email design techniques to provide a more streamlined user experience and facilitate easier product development.
  • Identified and bypassed data flow bottlenecks resulting in faster end to end processing and build times.
  • Saved well over a billion trees by virtue of working in a paperless industry.
  • GIFmaster General in group chats, increasing levity by 100% and decreasing stress approximately 50%.

Education

University of Central Florida

2013 - 2016
Bachelor of Applied Science
Software Development

  • Finished 2nd place at the 2012 Orlando HackerRank competition.
  • Certification in Computer Programming
  • Certification in Web Development
  • Graduated with High Honors

Valencia Community College

2010 - 2012
Associate of Science
Computer Programming & Analysis