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I build and ship software that works.

A Columbus developer who owns the whole build, and what happens after it ships.

~80%
of order entry
15+
microservices
200+
people served
84
apps upgraded
Brandon Rivera
Columbus, OH
Brandon at work
at the bench
Brandon Rivera
let's build
About

I build the whole thing, end to end.

I'm a .NET engineer who works across the stack: C# microservices, REST APIs, and the SQL and CI/CD that keep them running.

I own services end to end, untangle production issues under pressure, and coordinate the teams it takes to ship a migration.

Languages

  • C#
  • SQL
  • PowerShell
  • Bash
  • JavaScript
  • Python
  • Java
  • HTML/CSS
  • YAML

Frameworks & Libraries

  • ASP.NET
  • MVC
  • Blazor
  • .NET MAUI
  • EF
  • MVVM
  • Spring Boot
  • React.js
  • Node.js
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Bootstrap

Cloud & Tooling

  • Azure DevOps
  • Azure Key Vault
  • Application Insights
  • AWS
  • IIS
  • SQL Server
  • Visual Studio
  • Postman
  • Swagger

Practices

  • Microservice & BFF architecture
  • REST API design
  • CI/CD pipelines
  • Token-based auth
  • Unit & functional testing
  • Agile/Scrum
  • Code review
Background

Where I've been.

  1. Feb 2026 – Present

    Software Engineer · Kimball Midwest

    Leading legacy-API modernization and the Dynamics 365 migration: rewrote the service behind ~80% of order entry and drove my part of the .NET 8→10 upgrade.

  2. Jun 2024 – Feb 2026

    Associate Software Engineer · Kimball Midwest

    Built and owned a BFF over ~15 microservices, refactored a manager-facing mobile app to MVVM, and shipped its iOS and Android releases.

  3. Mar 2023 – Jun 2024

    Help Desk Agent, Tier 1 · Kimball Midwest

    Resolved IT and mobile-app tickets, automated the repetitive ones with PowerShell, and mined ticket data in SQL to surface recurring problems.

  4. 2023

    B.S. Computer Science · Franklin University

  5. 2020

    A.S. Software Development · Columbus State

Certifications

  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900), 2024
  • CompTIA IT Fundamentals+, 2024
Work

selected work

Projects people depend on.

Real work from Kimball Midwest: systems people rely on daily. Filter by skill to see where I've used it.

10 projects

Contact

Have something you need built?

Tell me what you're building and I'll get back to you, usually within a day.