About

Brandon Maushund is a highly skilled software engineer with over 7 years of experience in the industry. He is currently working as a Senior Software Engineer at Monarch Money, where he has architected and built their javascript monorepo, encompassing their React web app, React Native mobile app, and shared javascript libraries. He has also initiated the migration from their Django REST API to GraphQL, which currently powers 95% of their app today. Brandon has architected and built a large number of their core features such as Investments, Planning, and Crypto Brokerage Integrations, as well as their multi-platform billing system across web, iOS, and Android. Prior to Monarch Money, Brandon worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Cruise Automation, where he quickly became an engineering leader on the Product Team. He designed and implemented sets of microservices for metrics analysis as well as ride pricing and accounting on the backend. On the frontend, he served as tech lead for a simulation creation tool rebuilt entirely in a functional style. Brandon's role included setting team engineering culture and best practices, talking to their tool's users to uncover requirements, working with design and product management to prioritize feature asks, and communicating with other engineering teams about how their tool can support their additional use cases. Brandon also worked as a Software Engineer at Facebook, where he took half a dozen products from ideation to launching for over a billion people around the world. His projects include a new type of feed story for music, spatial audio processing in virtual reality, reacting to 3D scenes in 360 videos, and live video broadcasting. He also managed multiple interns and gave conference talks on frontend architecture paradigms. Brandon holds a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley. He is skilled in software engineering, web development, Javascript, iOS, mobile development, frontend development, product management, Django, React Native, Android, microservices, and backend development. Brandon is a creator of things and eater of snacks, as he describes himself on his LinkedIn profile.