Brayden Werner
Software Engineer
About
Hi, my name is Brayden.
I'm a software engineer with a focus on building reliable and scalable applications. I studied computer science at UC Davis and Colorado State University, where I gained solid skills in various programming languages and technologies. I've had the opportunity to intern at Lacework, Facebook, Amazon Web Services, and First American Title, where I worked on delivering quality software and collaborating with different teams to get things done.
Experience
Software Engineer Intern
Lacework
June 2024 - August 2024
• Developed a workflow enabling customers to create and save queries, successfully rolled out to enterprise customers
• Partnered with cross-functional teams to integrate the feature across application components
• Tech stack: React, TypeScript, GraphQL, Java, Snowflake, Git
Cofounder
TrendUp
January 2023 - December 2023 · 1 yr
• Founded a YCombinator-backed startup, a project visibility calendar for marketing teams
• Developed a highly efficient drag and drop task management interface
• Tech stack: React, TypeScript, Python, Next.js, Node.js, Postgres, SQL
Software Engineer Intern
Meta (formerly Facebook)
September 2022 - December 2022 · 4 mos
• Shipped a tool to help ML engineers understand and debug Facebook feed recommendations (”suggested for you” posts)
• Achieved all internship stretch goals 4 weeks ahead of schedule and developed additional features
• Tech stack: React, JavaScript, Relay, GraphQL, PHP (Hack), Python, Mercurial.
Software Development Engineer Intern
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
June 2022 - September 2022 · 4 mos
• Delivered a self-service solution for cloning dependency graphs, streamlining on-call processes
• Maintained 90% code coverage with Jest tests for the frontend in React
• Tech stack: React, JavaScript, Jest, AWS CloudFormation, AWS Lambda, AWS SQS, DynamoDB, Java, Git
Software Engineer
First American Title · Part-time
June 2021 - May 2022 · 1 yr
• Refactored a web application to enable Business-to-Employee authentication
• Saved a team 3 hours a week by building a UI to compile and chart data across SQL Server tables
• Implemented unit testing with xUnit and Mock frameworks
• Built CI/CD pipelines with YAML
• Organized work using the Agile Methodology and met sprint deadlines while working on 3 projects simultaneously
• Worked with React, Angular, JavaScript, C# .NET, SQL Server, Microsoft Azure, Git
Software Engineer Intern
University of Michigan
December 2020 - May 2020 · 6 mos
• Developed scalable solutions for maintaining and expanding a large-scale database
• Deployed code used by thousands of users
• Wrote a complex script to update over 1,000 user documents after refactoring the database
• Worked with a variety of different technologies including React, Firebase, Recoil, Node.js, JavaScript, Git
Software Engineer
CodeLab · Part-time
October 2021 - December 2022 · 2 mos
• Worked in a small team to develop a self-service fitting room web application for a client
• Used Angular, TypeScript, Firebase, Jira, Git
Projects