- Traveling to unusual places
- Trying new recipes
- Exploring the Rocky mountains in all seasons
- Learning something new
- Reading books
Martin Brandt
Summary
Thoughtful problem solver who takes pride in building relationships across teams and delivering impactful product to users. Loves learning new technology and quick iteration to get proof of concept in decision maker hands early in the project lifecycle. Shares a deep commitment to building testable solutions that prioritize observability, maintainability and simplicity,
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Intermediate Backpacker
Travel Sabbatical
03.2025 - 10.2025
- A chosen work hiatus spent backpacking through Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Frontend Platform Software Engineer
Workday Inc
10.2023 - 03.2025
- Company Overview: Workday provides enterprise cloud applications for finance, HR, and planning used by organizations worldwide
- Rewrote brittle and poorly covered code to support high visibility, business-critical data visualization software seen by all 7+ million users
- Designed and implemented responsive mini card feature to deliver concise dashboard-like user information, reducing card screen real estate by half
- Developed scrollable menu with mobile-first responsive design, serving over 7 million product users
- Led cross-organizational AI training sessions for engineers to share learnings in generative AI space
- Migrated team repository to static asset delivery, eliminating a manual, error-prone deployment process which saved 4+ dev hours per sprint
- Reduced bundle size by orders of magnitude through code splitting and lazy loading, enabling use of team codebase in Workday homepage
- Designed and implemented dashboard and error tracking for products, offering bindings for expansion across additional organizational products using React error boundaries
- Served as mentor to team intern contributing to successful project completion and subsequent hire to team
- Scoped out and initiated development of UI card previewer feature, allowing for rapid prototyping of UI cards and enabling future AI-powered card preview development
- Migrated team React repository to i18n, adhering to industry standards for globalization
Senior Software Engineer
Virta Health
03.2020 - 10.2023
- Company Overview: Virta Health has a mission to end type 2 diabetes, helping patients reverse their condition using a ketogenic diet
- Migrated patient enrollment to new service, reducing original code footprint over 90% using a schema driven approach
- Reworked enrollment flow to increase applicant enrollment by 15%, lead capture by over 60%
- Delivered in-house content UI for patients as part of a tiger team tasked with integrating Sanity.io CMS
- Integrated Zuora billing software, replacing manual billing system which had been a major source of unpaid customer bills
- Refactored authentication across UI clients to replace homegrown token management with Google Identity Provider
- Implemented resources in the FHIR standard for healthcare data modeling
- Made early contributions to UI component library, driving the company towards a more reusable and composable UI framework
- Led 35 person engineering organization in a remote summit to promote team-building and ideation
- Mentored junior and new developers with code review feedback, design discussions, and pair programming
Novice Backpacker
Travel Sabbatical
04.2019 - 02.2020
- A chosen work hiatus spent backpacking through Asia
Senior Software Engineer
Cloud Elements
10.2018 - 04.2019
- Company Overview: Cloud Elements, now part of UiPath, provides tools to accelerate the development and maintenance of integrations with third party APIs
- Led effort to write end-to-end UI regression tests using Cypress.io testing software, resulting in over three months of hotfix-free development
- Managed project to update React library to version 16 across two large React repositories, resulted in a significant reduction in time to resolve bugs due to improved error handling
- Co-led planning and implementation of white labeling features, allowing enterprise scale customers to customize UI via API driven configuration
- Made significant improvements in CI builds to allow automated versioning and parallelized testing in a pre-merge setting
Software Engineer
Cloud Elements
08.2016 - 10.2018
- Developed full stack solutions using React.js and the Java Spring framework to help customers fluidly integrate existing data streams with third party APIs
- Implemented two factor authentication using a popular key-value store and supporting both SMS and Google Authenticator
- Built Swagger API documentation ingestible by AWS Lambda architecture
- Created API data model generation platform, enabling a team of offshore developers to input API request/response data through a spreadsheet interface and generate documentation on the fly
- Developed change management UI, allowing admins to view and approve developer contributions and changes using the Monaco-Editor code diffing library
- Enhanced asynchronous bulk API architecture with additional resiliency
- Augmented usage logs, adding additional ElasticSearch queries and DAO to track customer usage on a per-object basis
Support Engineer
Cloud Elements
11.2015 - 08.2016
- Worked with a small team to handle technical support of 40+ customers through Zendesk tickets and direct support calls, resolving most customer issues in under 24 hours
- Diagnosed and fixed bugs, making ~400 contributions to the main project repository
- Aided in building future team through interviewing prospective hires and training new team members
- Gained support and development experience with little oversight, allowing team velocity to remain high during onboarding
Data Warehouse Engineer
Hewlett Packard
06.2014 - 11.2015
- Developed tool for data dependency visualization of Data Warehouse using Neo4j graph database and Java
- Scripted Python to parse data objects such as tables and columns out of SQL for greater data visibility
- Assisted senior developers with troubleshooting errors in SQL ETL code as part of HP separation
- Participated in future state project converting SQL to HIVE and Vertica based ETL
- Mentored newer developers by providing descriptions of existing code and suggestions for improvement
- Saved senior developer's time by running queries to find potential faults with circular logic structures
- Worked with team members to build visualization portal using REST calls, JavaScript and Arbor.js
Education
Bachelor of Business Administration - MIS
The University of Texas at Austin
01.2014
Bachelor of Sciences - Unspecified
The University of Texas at Austin
01.2012
Bachelor of Sciences - Unspecified
Austin Community College
01.2010
Skills
- Experienced in: Typescript, Java, Python, React, Spring Framework, Redux, FHIR, REST APIs, HTML, CSS, SQL, JIRA, Redis, Google Identity, Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub, AWS Lambda and API Gateway
- Teamwork and collaboration
- Problem-solving
- Multitasking
- Team collaboration
- Relationship building
- Front-end development
- Interpersonal skills
- Testing and debugging
Websites
Interests
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Github Username: martinbrandt
Timeline
Intermediate Backpacker
Travel Sabbatical
03.2025 - 10.2025
Frontend Platform Software Engineer
Workday Inc
10.2023 - 03.2025
Senior Software Engineer
Virta Health
03.2020 - 10.2023
Novice Backpacker
Travel Sabbatical
04.2019 - 02.2020
Senior Software Engineer
Cloud Elements
10.2018 - 04.2019
Software Engineer
Cloud Elements
08.2016 - 10.2018
Support Engineer
Cloud Elements
11.2015 - 08.2016
Data Warehouse Engineer
Hewlett Packard
06.2014 - 11.2015
Bachelor of Sciences - Unspecified
The University of Texas at Austin
Bachelor of Sciences - Unspecified
Austin Community College
Bachelor of Business Administration - MIS
The University of Texas at Austin
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