Hi, I'm Brandon Heacock, a Senior Full-Stack Engineer with 14+ years of experience designing, building, and maintaining scalable web applications and distributed systems. I specialize in JavaScript ecosystems (Node.js, React, Next.js, Nest.js, Angular, Vue) and also work with Python, C#, Ruby on Rails, and Go. I'm proud to lead teams and deliver high-performance solutions—I've reduced API latency by 47% at Atlassian and cut report generation time by 65% with a Python analytics engine. I excel in cloud-native architectures (AWS, GCP), CI/CD, microservices, and event-driven systems, and I enjoy translating complex problems into robust software that boosts productivity and delivery velocity.

Brandon Heacock

Hi, I'm Brandon Heacock, a Senior Full-Stack Engineer with 14+ years of experience designing, building, and maintaining scalable web applications and distributed systems. I specialize in JavaScript ecosystems (Node.js, React, Next.js, Nest.js, Angular, Vue) and also work with Python, C#, Ruby on Rails, and Go. I'm proud to lead teams and deliver high-performance solutions—I've reduced API latency by 47% at Atlassian and cut report generation time by 65% with a Python analytics engine. I excel in cloud-native architectures (AWS, GCP), CI/CD, microservices, and event-driven systems, and I enjoy translating complex problems into robust software that boosts productivity and delivery velocity.

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Hi, I’m Brandon Heacock, a Senior Full-Stack Engineer with 14+ years of experience designing, building, and maintaining scalable web applications and distributed systems. I specialize in JavaScript ecosystems (Node.js, React, Next.js, Nest.js, Angular, Vue) and also work with Python, C#, Ruby on Rails, and Go.

I’m proud to lead teams and deliver high-performance solutions—I’ve reduced API latency by 47% at Atlassian and cut report generation time by 65% with a Python analytics engine. I excel in cloud-native architectures (AWS, GCP), CI/CD, microservices, and event-driven systems, and I enjoy translating complex problems into robust software that boosts productivity and delivery velocity.

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Work Experience

Senior Software Engineer at Atlassian
June 1, 2020 - Present
Led migration of Jira backend to Node.js/Nest.js microservices, reducing API latency by 47% and doubling throughput. Built a Go-based real-time issue indexing service speeding search for 6M+ daily queries. Optimized React front-end with code-splitting and edge caching, cutting load times by 58%. Developed a Python analytics engine reducing report generation from 10 minutes to 3.5 minutes (65% faster). Enhanced internal Rails admin tooling to streamline deployment workflows by 23%.
Senior Full-Stack Engineer at SalesLoft
March 1, 2016 - May 1, 2020
Built Node.js microservices handling 40M+ daily API requests, improving response times by 52%. Developed Go-based batch and real-time processing pipelines increasing throughput 2.8x. Maintained internal Ruby on Rails systems for customer analytics and engagement, reducing operational overhead by 31%. Delivered React/Next.js dashboards used by internal teams, improving workflow efficiency 29%. Reduced AWS infrastructure cost by 28% via container optimization, autoscaling, and caching strategies.
Software Engineer at Shopify
January 1, 2013 - February 1, 2016
Implemented merchant tools and billing services in Ruby on Rails, improving stability 38%. Built Go background workers for fraud detection and transaction scoring (1M+ events/hr). Migrated AngularJS apps to React, improving page load performance 43%. Developed Python ingestion pipelines processing 1.5TB/day at 99.5% reliability. Automated testing (Jest, RSpec), reducing production bugs 33%.
Junior Software Engineer at Adobe
June 1, 2010 - December 1, 2012
Developed dashboards with Angular + Rails APIs, saving 15–18 hours/week in manual reporting. Built Python scripts to accelerate batch processing 3x. Developed C# internal tools boosting workflow efficiency 22%. Optimized SQL queries and background processes, reducing backend errors by 25%.

Education

B.S. Computer Science at University of Colorado Boulder
September 20, 2005 - May 1, 2010
B.S. Computer Science at University of Colorado Boulder
September 1, 2005 - May 1, 2010
B.S. Computer Science at University of Colorado Boulder
September 1, 2005 - May 1, 2010

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Software & Internet, Professional Services