Brandon Meeks
Software Engineer at Snap Inc.
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrandon Meeks is a pragmatic full-stack software engineer with 10 years of experience building high-performance systems across startups and major tech firms, currently contributing at Snap in New York. He blends backend systems and database expertise—evidenced by contributions to Expensify’s Bedrock distributed database and a history of optimizing SQLite interactions—with front-end and mobile product work like leading Expensify’s Mileage Tracking and co-founding a deployed student-safety app. At Bloomberg he architected latency- and correctness-sensitive distributed trade processing in Go/C++, and he’s comfortable pivoting between deep technical implementation and product-facing features. Brandon emphasizes thoughtful system design from schema to micro-optimizations, aiming to make code both efficient for machines and clear for other developers.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Computer Science at Washington University in St. LouisAlbuquerque Academy
English, Spanish
Github Skills (5)
sqlite10
sql10
database-design10
c-language8
cprogramming-language8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Expensify/Bedrock
Oct 2017 - Jan 2018
Rock solid distributed database specializing in active/active automatic failover and WAN replication
Role in this project:
Database Engineer / Database Administrator
Database Engineer / Database AdministratorContributions:10 commits, 4 PRs, 15 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Brandon primarily focused on modifications related to the database layer within the `bedrock` repository, specifically interacting with SQLite. Their contributions involved demoting assert warnings, which indicates a debugging or optimization effort within the database interaction code. They also introduced a function to set the "query_only" PRAGMA and integrated it within a specific method, suggesting a focus on query optimization and control. Furthermore, the user made changes to the HTTP tests, which implies added capabilities for testing database-related commands within the project.
distributed-databasefailoverreplicationwan
brandonhub/sway
Dec 2016 - Mar 2020
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
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