Brandon Starkweather · Software Engineer

I build complete products —
and ship them.

A software engineer with a decade of keeping real systems running, now spent building them. Published Android app, live API-driven web apps, and a stubborn eye for the last 10%.

Open to SWE roles · San Francisco / Palo Alto

About

A builder who sweats the details

I like to ship. I've published an Android app to the Google Play Store, hand-built a daily dashboard that stitches six live APIs into one calm view, and spent ten years before that keeping mission-critical systems online across hundreds of locations.

That operations background is my edge: I build software that survives contact with real users. I care about reliability, edge cases, and the unglamorous last 10% that separates a demo from a product.

Languages

JavaKotlinJavaScriptPythonSQL

Frameworks & Platforms

SpringAndroid SDKBootstrapREST

Engineering

MVVMMVCRoomHilt DICameraXML KitGit

Cloud & Certs

AWS PractitionerITILProject+
1
App live on Google Play
6+
Live APIs integrated
70+
LeetCode problems solved
10 yrs
In production systems
Selected Work

Things I've shipped

A mix of production apps and hand-built tools. Every one is live and clickable.

40 Hours — Timecard Solver

A focused tool that back-solves your final timecard punch so the week lands on exactly 40 hours — adjustment percentages and all.

JavaScriptDOM

AI Engineer Roadmap

An interactive, data-driven roadmap charting a six-month path into AI engineering — curriculum weighting and math focus visualized with D3.

D3.jsData VizHTML/CSS
Track Record

Ten years shipping reliability

Before I built software, I kept it running. The numbers came with the job.

2019 — 2025

Desktop Support Specialist

Charter Communications · East Syracuse, NY

Cut average resolution time from 45 to 20 minutes with streamlined troubleshooting, and reduced unauthorized-access incidents 30% by tightening account and permission practices.

2018 — 2019

Technical Support Specialist

CBORD · Ithaca, NY

Held 95% customer satisfaction across channels, cut case resolution time 20%, and cut repeat incidents 15% by writing the docs the team was missing.

2015 — 2018

POS Coordinator

Sally Beauty · Denton, TX

Kept 99.8% POS uptime across 500+ retail locations, resolved ~40 tickets weekly, and led a 3-week onboarding program that lifted new-hire efficiency 30%.

B.S. Software Engineering, Western Governors University (2025)  ·  AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner  ·  ITIL Foundation  ·  Project+
Contact

Let's build something.

I'm open to software engineering roles, especially in the Bay Area. The fastest way to reach me is email — I answer quickly.