Seeking a progressive company where individual voices are valued. I have one foot firmly planted in design and the other in full-stack development. My ideal role would find a way to make use of both of these qualities.
Brandon Durham
@brandondurham
Lead/Senior Software Engineer
What I'm looking for
I’m a Design Engineer with 20+ years of experience helping teams turn complex ideas into clear, usable, and beautifully built web products. I’m comfortable owning every part of a project — from early design exploration and information architecture, through database design and back-end development (including custom or packaged CMS solutions), all the way to component libraries and polished, accessible front-end interfaces. I work at the intersection of design and engineering, with a particular love for typography, thoughtful systems, and front-end architecture that feels calm, intuitive, and built to last.
Over the years, I’ve had the opportunity to build and ship work for a wide range of clients and audiences — including sites for Lou Reed, MTV, Nike, Lyle Lovett, Hoefler&Co., and many others — as well as large-scale SaaS platforms and design-forward products. I’m deeply hands-on, collaborative, and values-driven, and I do my best work in environments that care about people as much as the product. I enjoy mentoring, asking good questions, and helping teams build not just better software, but better ways of working together.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Senior Full Stack Engineer
SimpleClosure
Jul 2024 - Present (1 year 6 months)
Senior full-stack contributor building tools to automate and streamline business shutdown processes; designed two operational dashboards that reduced Operations touch by 15% and accelerated customer shutdown timelines.
Selected to rebuild the product suite into a unified modular platform ('Layers'); increased bug score by 15%, raised component library test coverage from 20% to ~75%, and improved performance by 35%.
Lead Front-end Engineer
Fringe
Apr 2021 - Apr 2023 (2 years)
Built the Engineering department and led the Frontend team to deliver a Marketplace MVP; authored a React design system with 98% test coverage and improved on-time delivery by 40%.
Lead Software Engineer & Designer
Hoefler & Co.
Apr 2012 - Apr 2021 (9 years)
Led design and front-end engineering for typography-focused web platforms and a SaaS font delivery service powering 230,000+ sites; built Discover.typography.com and Try.typography.com and architected integrated front-end systems with high-performance CDN and CRM.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
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Tech stack
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Website
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