Brandon Parks
@brandonparks
Senior .NET Engineer | Senior Full Stack Engineer
United StatesWhat I'm looking for
Senior Software Engineer with 20+ years of experience delivering scalable enterprise solutions across the .NET ecosystem, Python, Go, and modern JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks (React, Angular, Vue). Skilled in building cloud-native applications on Azure, AWS, and GCP, I combine backend engineering, frontend development, and DevOps practices to create resilient, secure, and high-performance platforms.
Proven expertise in API design, ETL pipelines, and GIS solutions, with a track record of improving business decision-making and user experience. Adept at applying CI/CD, DevSecOps, and infrastructure-as-code to streamline delivery, reduce operational risk, and accelerate innovation. Experienced in integrating AI/ML and LLM-powered search to modernize legacy systems and drive intelligent automation.
Recognized for mentoring teams, leading modernization initiatives, and aligning technology with business outcomes, I bring a balance of hands-on technical excellence and strategic impact to every project.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
DMProgrammer Analyst II
DHI Mortgage
Nov 2015 - Present (9 years 11 months)
Redesigned core systems into .NET Core microservices, modernized UIs with Angular/React, and built CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps. Delivered scalable ETL, event-driven services, and Power BI dashboards while cutting release cycles, boosting API speed, and maintaining 99.99% uptime.
Senior .NET Engineer
DHI Mortgage Company
Nov 2015 - Present (9 years 11 months)
Led modernization of enterprise mortgage platforms using C#/.NET and cloud services, cutting infrastructure costs 30% and halving nightly batch windows while improving uptime to 99.9%.
Senior Software Engineer
CyOne Inc.
Mar 2016 - Mar 2018 (2 years)
Converted a monolith into .NET Core microservices on Docker/K8s, improving throughput and security with STIG-hardened containers. Built Angular GIS dashboards, automated CI/CD, scaled ETL pipelines, and migrated services to Azure with Terraform, cutting infra costs ~30%.
OOSenior Software Engineer
Overwatch Systems Tactical Operations
Jul 2012 - Nov 2015 (3 years 4 months)
Re-architected mission apps into WCF services with clustered C++ back ends, achieving high availability. Optimized geospatial rendering, automated builds with TFS/PowerShell, wrapped legacy Java in .NET, improved reporting performance, and enforced secure coding practices.
Senior Software Engineer
Overwatch Systems
Jul 2012 - Nov 2015 (3 years 4 months)
Re-architected mission applications into scalable WCF and C++ services to achieve ~99.99% availability and doubled geospatial rendering performance via optimized algorithms.
OOSoftware Engineer
Overwatch Systems Tactical Operations
Jan 2008 - Jul 2012 (4 years 6 months)
Developed C++ middleware for tactical message traffic, SOAP web services in Java, and telemetry tools in C#. Tuned SQL Server for faster reporting, streamlined ETL with COM+ components, and modernized ASP.NET WebForms with AJAX, cutting query and load times by 50%+.
Software Engineer
Overwatch Systems
Jan 2008 - Jul 2012 (4 years 6 months)
Developed C++ middleware and Java SOAP services and optimized SQL Server procedures to improve tactical communications throughput and field reporting performance.
OOSenior Test Engineer
Overwatch Systems Tactical Operations
Feb 2005 - Jan 2008 (2 years 11 months)
Built automated regression frameworks in VB.NET, reducing manual QA by 70%. Simulated sensor data with C++ utilities, expanded browser test coverage, and tied JUnit tests into CruiseControl.NET dashboards, speeding validation cycles and improving defect detection.
Senior Test Engineer
Overwatch Systems
Feb 2005 - Jan 2008 (2 years 11 months)
Built automated regression harnesses and simulation utilities in VB.NET and C++ that reduced manual testing effort and increased release readiness.
UACompleted B.S. in Computer Science; engaged in alumni activities as a Texas Exes life member.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
UAUniversity of Texas at Austin
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
2000 - 2004
Grade: 3.8
Activities and societies: Texas Exes Life Member.
Completed a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin. Graduated May 2004.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Amazon Redshift
Splunk
Azure Synapse
D3.js
Chart.js
AWS IAM
Microsoft Azure
Google Cloud Platform
Amazon S3
Google Cloud Storage
Azure Storage
AWS Step Functions
GitHub
GitLab
Bitbucket
SonarQube
RxJS
Kubernetes
Azure Kubernetes Service
Jenkins
CircleCI
Travis CI
GitHub Actions
GitLab CI
Salesforce
React Native
Xamarin
Expo
NumPy
Pandas
PostGIS
dbt
DB
MySQL
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
Microsoft SQL Server
MariaDB
Memcached
Gmail
Node.js
Django
.NET Core
Ruby on Rails
Next.js
NestJS
.NET
ASP.NET Core
Tailwind CSS
Material-UI
Databricks
Okta
Redis
Terraform
AWS CloudFormation
Pulumi
Azure Resource Manager
Visual Studio
Azure DevOps
Jira
Ant Design
Mocha
React
Vue.js
jQuery
AngularJS
React-Vue
Webpack
JavaScript
Python
HTML5
Java
CSS 3
PHP
Kotlin
ASP.NET
PowerShell
Logstash
Fluentd
Graylog
AWS CloudTrail
Blazor
TensorFlow
PyTorch
scikit-learn
Amazon ElastiCache
Kafka
RabbitMQ
Amazon SQS
Azure Service Bus
WCF
MSMQ
Django REST framework
FastAPI
Istio
Amazon SNS
Grafana
Kibana
Prometheus
OpenTelemetry
Azure Monitor
Amazon DynamoDB
Windows
Windows Server
Azure Active Directory
New Relic
Datadog
AWS X-Ray
Azure Database for PostgreSQL
GraphQL
NATS
SignalR
gRPC
Elasticsearch
OpenSearch
Azure Security Center
Protobuf
Ansible
AWS Lambda
Serverless
Google Cloud Functions
Azure Functions
Amazon RDS
Amazon Aurora
Azure SQL Database
Zustand
TypeScript
JUnit
sso
Docker
OpenVPN
WebRTC
NGINX
Airflow
Toolkit
Time Analytics
Google Lighthouse
Google BigQuery
SQL
IBM Cloud
LoadRunner
Azure Cosmos DB
Azure Blob Storage
SciPy
Snyk
Burp Suite
Dagster
LangChain
Weaviate
Cilium
Trivy
Ray
.NET MAUI
Apigee
Linkerd
ArgoCD
Vite
Zipkin
Availability
Location
United StatesAuthorized to work in
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