<p>Raven is an IDE for Go, written in C++ and heavily optimized.</p><ul><li>Developed IDE for Go. Wrote window manager, vim keybindings, jump to definition, autocomplete, parameter hints, find all usages, auto format/lint on save, build and run, and more. Involuntarily memorized the Go grammar.&nbsp;</li><li>Optimized code to death. Wrote custom parser, code analysis, and OpenGL renderer. Wrote several specialized memory allocators (calling malloc all the time is way too slow).</li></ul>

Software Developer

<ul><li>Worked with the “Seller Experience” product team. Worked on a React-based app where home sellers managed the entire sale in one place, including sign pending documents, view escrow status, and upload necessary assets.</li><li>Moved to Open Listings team, which Opendoor acquired in late 2018. Worked on (newly christened) “Buyer Experience” product team, building a great user experience for buyers to browse and send offers to homes for sale in the area.</li></ul>

Senior Software Engineer

<p>Armory.io is a B2B startup that helps large companies install and manage a Spinnaker installation.</p><ul><li>Worked on various tools to facilitate this.</li><li>Developed an easy installer script for customers to install Spinnaker onto their existing Kubernetes setup in minutes instead of hours.</li><li>Built React-based tools for customers to customize their Spinnaker installations with an intuitive UI, instead of tediously editing their .yml configuration files.</li><li>Worked on a “pipelines as code” feature that allowed users to programmatically specify a Spinnaker pipeline as a source-controlled file inside their repositories.</li><li>Added features upstream into OSS Spinnaker that were critical to Armory, such as the Spinnaker Kayenta integration with Datadog.</li><li>Created an “Insights” dashboard for customers to view their deployments and SLA failures in one place, enabling them to correlate their service outages with specific times.</li></ul>

<ul><li>Built a web-based tool for annotating 3D lidar data for a self-driving car company, increasing throughput of their ML data pipeline. </li><li>Developed a modular, extensible adapter for a ridesharing company to make API calls to vehicles, allowing engineers to treat the vehicle as a black-box interface, increasing engineering output. </li><li>Created a generic framework for a voice analytics company to import call data from customers' existing call systems. This enabled them to offer a stronger user experience to customers, who could now log in and see all of their existing call data in the dashboard. </li><li>Built a gift-recommendation app for IBM to demonstrate their new Watson technology. They launched it at SF Westfield mall over Christmas mounted on an iPad kiosk. </li><li>Worked on various contract projects for about 50 clients.</li></ul>

Brandon Hsiao

English (British)

Brandon Hsiao is a full-stack developer experienced with software such as Node.js, Django, Rails, Go, React, JavaScript, and TypeScript. At Opendoor, he developed a React-based app where home sellers managed the entire sale in one place, including sign pending documents, view escrow status, and upload necessary assets. He also worked as a senior software engineer for a B2B startup that helps large companies install and manage a Spinnaker installation.

Brandon Hsiao

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