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    "name": "Jake Brandt",
    "label": "Software and Systems Architect / Engineer // Machine Learning and MLOps // University Adjunct",
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    "email": "jbrandt@brandtmedia.net",
    "phone": "315-256-1897",
    "summary": "Full-stack software architect for traditional and cloud/serverless platforms, serving as team lead, mentor, manager, and technical point-of-contact to shareholders and B2B partners. Experienced leading teams in both startup and mature environments in distributed event-based systems, consumer-facing online ordering platforms, data/ETL pipelines, and adtech/martech partner integrations. Hands-on with Python and Keras/TensorFlow for daily stock data mining, GAN/CNN-based terrain generation, and Azure Cognitive Services Personalizer-powered game AI. Comfortable jumping into in-progress or in-transfer projects to drive process adoption, documentation, and business continuity while mentoring others.",
    "location": {
      "city": "Rochester",
      "region": "NY"
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      "name": "Butler/Till",
      "location": "Rochester, New York, United States",
      "position": "Principal Engineer",
      "startDate": "2025-07",
      "highlights": [
        "Lead scalable software design and delivery aligned with customer and partner needs; serve as a technical SME, mentor, and advocate for sound enterprise architecture practices.",
        "Designed and delivered integrations with marketing/ad platforms (Google Search Ads 360, Meta Ads, Billups) to support campaign operations, reporting, and reconciliation.",
        "Established integration patterns for rate limiting, retries, and idempotent processing to improve data freshness and reduce incidents."
      ],
      "employmentType": "Full-time"
    },
    {
      "name": "Mindex",
      "location": "Rochester, New York, United States",
      "position": "Principal Engineer and Presales",
      "startDate": "2020-12",
      "endDate": "2025-07",
      "highlights": [
        "Led a stable transfer of multiple AWS customers after an acquisition, ensuring continuity and reliability.",
        "Advised on cloud-native technology and software investments for a national agent media and marketing marketplace, meeting weekly with stakeholders.",
        "Drove adoption of SDLC best practices including dependency injection, infrastructure as code, peer reviews, and Agile process adoption.",
        "Applied experience with ETL/data warehouse/data lake solutions, pub/sub event systems, and cloud optimizations."
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    {
      "name": "Rochester Institute of Technology",
      "location": "Rochester, New York Area",
      "position": "Adjunct Faculty, Department of Computer Science",
      "startDate": "2015-11",
      "endDate": "2025-07",
      "highlights": [
        "Taught CSCI 510, Fundamentals of Computer Graphics, including 2D/3D algorithms, transforms, projection, and OpenGL/GLSL shader development."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "TEKsystems",
      "location": "Rochester, New York Area",
      "position": "Senior Software Engineer (meal delivery platform)",
      "startDate": "2019-09",
      "endDate": "2020-12",
      "highlights": [
        "Contributed to an Angular SPA codebase for online ordering workflows and payment gateway integration.",
        "Built unit tests, performed peer reviews, and guided Azure B2C OAuth integration, SEO optimization, and accessibility.",
        "Delivered a customer management portal using .NET Core (server-side Blazor), Azure Durable Functions, and Application Insights.",
        "Performed technical screenings and assessments for prospective hires."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "CaterTrax",
      "location": "Rochester, New York Area",
      "position": "Senior Software Engineer / Technical Project Lead",
      "startDate": "2017-07",
      "endDate": "2019-09",
      "highlights": [
        "Architected the first distributed extension to a mature flagship product, expanding from leased hardware to serverless components and upgrading identity to support stateful and SPA subsystems.",
        "Developed a Node.js-based unit testing framework for Classic ASP with SQL/environment mocking and expect-style assertions.",
        "Provided architectural guidance for SPAs, distributed REST APIs, and enterprise security considerations.",
        "Partnered with product analysts on prioritizing technical backlog items such as security and future-proofing.",
        "Advised the CIO on investments in outsourced/specialized teams and internal resource alignment."
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    {
      "name": "CaterTrax",
      "location": "Rochester, New York Area",
      "position": "Software Development Manager",
      "startDate": "2016-10",
      "endDate": "2017-07",
      "highlights": [
        "Managed day-to-day HR needs of development teams and supported recruiting, interviewing, and career planning."
      ],
      "employmentType": "Full-time"
    },
    {
      "name": "Star Fantasy Leagues, Inc.",
      "location": "Rochester, New York Area",
      "position": "Fractional Chief Technology Officer / Senior Engineer",
      "startDate": "2015-06",
      "endDate": "2016-10",
      "highlights": [
        "Provided technical direction and roadmap for fantasy sports products, including native mobile apps.",
        "Owned IT aspects of regulatory license applications and audits.",
        "Led a transition to SPA architecture backed by distributed REST APIs, Redis cache, Azure SQL, and OAuth/OpenID Connect.",
        "Coordinated technical scope and timelines with partners and investors.",
        "Secured cloud hosting credits and MSDN licenses through Microsoft programs."
      ]
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    {
      "name": "Star Fantasy Leagues, Inc.",
      "location": "Rochester, New York Area",
      "position": "Scrum Master / Project Manager",
      "startDate": "2014-10",
      "endDate": "2015-06",
      "highlights": [
        "Expanded the delivery team, coached agile practices, and improved estimation granularity.",
        "Reduced IT operating costs through program participation and cost monitoring.",
        "Introduced database versioning with SQL Server Data Tools and standardized release processes.",
        "Contributed to an ASP.NET MVC codebase using Entity Framework, SQL Server, and WebSockets."
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    {
      "name": "Mindex",
      "location": "Rochester, New York Area",
      "position": "Mobile Application / iOS Developer",
      "startDate": "2014-03",
      "endDate": "2014-10",
      "highlights": [
        "Architected and developed an MVP native iOS parent portal, coordinating shared UI patterns with the Android team.",
        "Acted as SME for iOS release practices, certificate management, and Apple Developer Center processes.",
        "Designed and built an ASP.NET-based APNs server with SOCKS proxy support for secure district datacenters."
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    {
      "name": "Mindex",
      "location": "Rochester, New York Area",
      "position": "C# Web and SQL Developer",
      "startDate": "2011-06",
      "endDate": "2014-10",
      "highlights": [
        "Developed SQL scripts/procedures and improved performance and maintainability.",
        "Built an externally facing bulk data import service using SQL Server, Windows Services, ASP.NET, and jQuery.",
        "Cut release deployment duration by 20% via a replacement database schema upgrade process with LINQ-to-SQL migrations.",
        "Architected a BI platform for data mining/visualization to complement the primary product.",
        "Conducted code/performance reviews for SQL and C# and prepared Team Foundation Server to replace legacy tools."
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    {
      "name": "Hospitality 101, Inc. / CaterTrax",
      "location": "Rochester, New York Area",
      "position": "Software Configuration Manager",
      "startDate": "2010-01",
      "endDate": "2011-06",
      "highlights": [
        "Released software updates to ~1000 centrally hosted customer sites without service interruption.",
        "Documented releases and trained support and sales teams on new functionality.",
        "Developed a WPF/VB.NET release deployment application that cut release times by 66%."
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    {
      "name": "Hospitality 101, Inc. / CaterTrax",
      "location": "Rochester, New York Area",
      "position": "Web Application Developer",
      "startDate": "2008-01",
      "endDate": "2010-12",
      "highlights": [
        "Maintained and extended a Classic ASP codebase.",
        "Built an aggregate reporting service producing financial/performance reports from 100+ sites in CSV/XML.",
        "Implemented a proprietary SAML service provider client for SSO with partners using C# and XML."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "ABC Electronics Services Corporation",
      "position": "Java Developer",
      "startDate": "2007-04",
      "endDate": "2010-12",
      "highlights": [
        "Delivered Java development work across enterprise systems; details available on request."
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      "institution": "Rochester Institute of Technology",
      "studyType": "Bachelor of Science",
      "area": "Computer Science",
      "startDate": "2006",
      "endDate": "2010"
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    {
      "institution": "SUNY Morrisville",
      "studyType": "Associate of Science",
      "area": "Computer Science",
      "startDate": "2004",
      "endDate": "2006"
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        "System Architecture",
        "Distributed Systems",
        "Legacy Systems",
        "Technical Presales"
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    {
      "name": "Cloud & DevOps",
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        "Cloud Computing",
        "DevOps",
        "Docker"
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    {
      "name": "AWS",
      "keywords": [
        "Amazon Web Services (AWS)",
        "AWS CloudFormation",
        "AWS SAM",
        "AWS Lambda",
        "AWS API Gateway",
        "Amazon S3",
        "Amazon SQS",
        "Amazon DynamoDB",
        "Amazon Route 53",
        "Amazon SES",
        "Amazon SNS"
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    {
      "name": "Azure",
      "keywords": [
        "Microsoft Azure",
        "Azure SQL",
        "Azure Durable Functions",
        "Application Insights",
        "Azure AD B2C",
        "Azure Cognitive Services Personalizer"
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    {
      "name": "AI & ML",
      "keywords": [
        "Artificial Intelligence (AI)",
        "Machine Learning",
        "Generative AI",
        "Large Language Models (LLMs)",
        "Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)",
        "AWS Bedrock",
        "AWS SageMaker",
        "Amazon Q Business",
        "TensorFlow",
        "Keras"
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    },
    {
      "name": "Languages",
      "keywords": [
        "Python",
        "TypeScript",
        "Node.js",
        "C#",
        "VBScript"
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    {
      "name": "Web/App Frameworks",
      "keywords": [
        "Angular",
        "AngularJS",
        "ASP.NET",
        "ASP.NET Core",
        "ASP.NET MVC",
        "Blazor",
        "Entity Framework",
        "jQuery",
        "WebSockets"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Data Stores",
      "keywords": [
        "PostgreSQL",
        "Microsoft SQL Server",
        "MongoDB",
        "Redis"
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    },
    {
      "name": "Tools & Libraries",
      "keywords": [
        "Puppeteer",
        "H3",
        ".NET",
        "WPF",
        "Xamarin"
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    },
    {
      "name": "Domains",
      "keywords": [
        "AdTech / MarTech",
        "FinTech",
        "Quantitative Finance"
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    },
    {
      "name": "Identity & Security Protocols",
      "keywords": [
        "OAuth 2.0",
        "OpenID Connect",
        "SAML",
        "IdentityServer"
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    {
      "name": "Press Release Classification employing Large-Language Models (LLMs)",
      "description": "LLM-based classification of press releases and quarterly filings synced from SEC EDGAR to improve signal quality for automated trading.",
      "startDate": "2024-11",
      "keywords": [
        "large-language-models",
        "generative-ai",
        "artificial-intelligence",
        "fintech"
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    },
    {
      "name": "LSTM-powered stock trading system",
      "description": "Keras/Python system trained on multi-year OHLCV histories for buy or do-not-buy classification, backed by Microsoft SQL Server.",
      "startDate": "2023-01",
      "keywords": [
        "machine-learning",
        "artificial-intelligence",
        "python",
        "keras",
        "quantitative-finance",
        "fintech",
        "microsoft-sql-server",
        "azure"
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    {
      "name": "Jake's Spotify Artist Page",
      "description": "Music production and publishing; compositions mixed and mastered in FL Studio.",
      "startDate": "2022-07",
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        "fl-studio"
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    },
    {
      "name": "car-term | Terminal-based auto dealership inventory crawler",
      "description": "Terminal-focused inventory crawler with a custom shell-like UX over automotive listings, built with Node.js, TypeScript, and MongoDB.",
      "startDate": "2020-11",
      "keywords": [
        "nodejs",
        "typescript",
        "mongodb"
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    },
    {
      "name": "Stock Screening and Trading Simulator for Windows Desktop",
      "description": "WPF/C# desktop tool for screening, charting, and historical trading simulation.",
      "startDate": "2014-09",
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        "dotnet",
        "csharp",
        "wpf",
        "microsoft-sql-server",
        "fintech"
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    },
    {
      "name": "Stock Trading Simulator for Windows Phone 8",
      "description": "Turn-based, day-by-day trading simulator for Windows Phone 8.",
      "startDate": "2013-08",
      "keywords": [
        "dotnet",
        "csharp",
        "fintech"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Restaurant recommendation service (tag generation)",
      "description": "LLM and geospatial pipeline that generates restaurant tags from reviews, photos, and menus to improve discovery.",
      "startDate": "2025-05",
      "endDate": "2025-06",
      "keywords": [
        "aws",
        "aws-lambda",
        "aws-bedrock",
        "large-language-models",
        "postgresql",
        "nodejs",
        "puppeteer",
        "h3",
        "docker",
        "aws-sam",
        "s3",
        "sqs"
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    },
    {
      "name": "X.com stock news analysis (RAG in Amazon Q Business)",
      "description": "RAG prototype in Amazon Q Business over an S3 corpus with provenance metadata and citations.",
      "startDate": "2025-06",
      "endDate": "2025-06",
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        "aws",
        "amazon-q",
        "aws-bedrock",
        "rag",
        "python",
        "s3",
        "sqs",
        "dynamodb"
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    {
      "name": "Classic ASP security hardening (request replay + emulation harness)",
      "description": "Automated request replay and emulated runtime to ship safer security changes in a legacy Classic ASP SaaS application.",
      "startDate": "2017-01",
      "endDate": "2017-03",
      "keywords": [
        "application-security",
        "secure-coding",
        "software-testing",
        "legacy-systems",
        "iis",
        "vbscript"
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  ],
  "volunteer": [
    {
      "organization": "MAD RESCUE OF WNY",
      "position": "Engineer, UI/UX Designer, MSP",
      "startDate": "2021-01",
      "summary": "Reduced nonprofit IT costs by over 90% (~$400+/yr) by modernizing its web presence with AWS serverless services (S3, Route 53, SES, SNS) and IaC."
    },
    {
      "organization": "Young Entrepreneurs Academy",
      "position": "Web Developer Consultant",
      "startDate": "2013-02",
      "endDate": "2016-06",
      "summary": "Helped YEA students establish and grow their web presence, supporting young entrepreneurs year after year."
    },
    {
      "organization": "Town of Chili",
      "position": "Volunteer Pee Wee Soccer Coach",
      "startDate": "2018-05",
      "endDate": "2021-07",
      "summary": "Kept kids active and built their confidence through weekly pee wee soccer coaching."
    }
  ],
  "references": [
    {
      "name": "Mikey McOrmond",
      "reference": "Senior Software Engineer \u2014 I worked with Jake some years ago, and we recently reconnected when I reached out during my job search. Even back then, Jake was far more than an engineer or team lead. He rocked his own tasks while offering genuine care, thoughtful advice, and an open door to those around him. He had a gift for sensing stress points in projects and teams--and instead of treating what he saw as problems, would be the first to offer help. Always without ego or perfectionism. When I reconnected with him, I was reminded of that spirit. I asked a simple question about my job hunt, and he gladly answered. I shortly hit a dead end, thanked him, and moved on. A couple of hours later, Jake surprised me with another message, unprompted, and offered a connection and referral path I never would have had access to on my own. Jake is not simply an engineer. He sees, feels, and builds in a multidimensional way. Both for the systems he works on, and the systems he exists within. And, he'd probably tell you that all that is no big deal."
    },
    {
      "name": "Frank Piacitelli",
      "reference": "Graphic Designer, Web Designer, UI/UX Designer \u2014 Jake is an excellent developer and absolutely great to work with on a team. Jake not only has a firm grasp on many technological concepts, but a keen eye and understanding of what makes a great experience for the user of the software or service he's working on. For a guy with such depth of knowledge, Jake is down-to-earth, genuine and friendly, and his personality puts others at ease and enriches team experiences, drawing out opinions and exchanges that might not come out otherwise. I hope to work with Jake again."
    },
    {
      "name": "Tam VanNostrand",
      "reference": "eCommerce Strategy | Digital Growth | Data-Driven Leadership \u2014 Jake was a pleasure to work with. Friendly, curious and genuine, he has a passion for what he does and for collaborating with others. He was the first and only engineer to ask to see the competitive reports I had been working on and even helped provide valuable insight that can improve them. True team player."
    },
    {
      "name": "Seth Young",
      "reference": "CEO @ High Roller Technologies (NYSE: ROLR) \u2014 There are times in life when you come across a rare breed, and that's the best way that I can describe Jake. He has a passion for his work and a thirst for knowledge that is only rivaled by his dedication to his family and friends. Professionally, Jake is top notch in all categories, and I considered it a privilege to work with him. I would consider Jake an asset to any organization that he chooses to work with."
    }
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