Brandon Hsiao

I’m a software engineer who loves owning end-to-end product work, from shipping features across the stack to improving the underlying systems that make teams faster. I’ve built and evolved full workflows—from home buying/selling experiences to marketplace-style products for niche communities.

In multiple roles, I’ve focused on practical platform building: rewriting core desktop experiences to simplify architecture, developing new creator monetization tooling, and creating marketplace workflows that combine buying/selling with livestreaming and custom AI-based builders. I’m comfortable moving quickly from ideas to v1 and iterating toward stable, scalable releases.

I bring a strong technical toolkit across languages and infrastructure. I’ve built an IDE for Go from scratch using C++ and OpenGL, and I’ve worked with containerized and orchestrated environments using Docker and Kubernetes while developing backend capabilities like location-based pay zones and related migration efforts.

As a founder and founding engineer, I’ve helped shape products and engineering direction—building new systems like an agent orchestrator and leading major rewrites—while staying hands-on with implementation details and product impact. I thrive in teams that value engineering ownership, rapid iteration, and measurable outcomes.