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Brendan Kam

@brendankam

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Backend-leaning full‑stack engineer focused on React/TypeScript and Node/NestJS with AI experience.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek remote-friendly roles building scalable full‑stack and AI-driven features, Typescript/NodeJS/LLM

I am a backend-leaning full‑stack engineer specializing in React/TypeScript and Node/NestJS who delivers production-ready features with testing and CI/CD. I prioritize clean architecture, typed contracts, performance, accessibility, and strong developer experience.

I have shipped pricing, quoting, and billing features, introduced a reusable React/TS component library and OpenAPI/codegen typed API contracts, and improved performance through code-splitting, memoization, and visual tests. I built NestJS services, REST/GraphQL endpoints, and authenticated job processing with BullMQ/Redis.

My recent focus is on AI features—LLM agents, RAG over vector DBs (Qdrant/Supabase), LangChain.js, and streaming with cost guardrails—alongside infrastructure using PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Docker, and CI/CD on GitHub Actions.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Frontend/Full-Stack Engineer

Current

MonetizeNow

Jul 2021 - Present (4 years 4 months)

Shipped pricing, quoting, and billing features and introduced a reusable React/TypeScript component library with typed API contracts, improving performance and developer experience.

React TypeScript NestJS Memoization Testing CI CD

Independent Contractor

Upwork

Jan 2019 - Jan 2021 (2 years)

Built NestJS/TypeScript services with auth, job queues, and CI/CD; delivered LLM features (tool use, memory, RAG) with streaming and cost guardrails for client projects.

NestJS TypeScript RAG Qdrant Redis BullMQ GitHub Actions

Software Engineer

IoTfy

Jan 2019 - Jan 2020 (1 year)

Developed a hospital patient management system using Particle.io devices to collect sensor data and designed APIs to control devices and trigger alerts, improving staff responsiveness.

Particle.Io IoT REST APIs PostgreSQL Docker AWS GCP Alerting

Senior Full-Stack Engineer

Captable, Inc

Jan 2016 - Jan 2019 (3 years)

Developed and maintained full-stack web apps and real-time services, architecting Node.js/TypeScript REST and GraphQL APIs and WebSocket streams for trading platforms.