Brandon McQueen

Building and scaling products independently across SaaS, AI, ecommerce, and developer tooling. Clients and projects have ranged from early stage startups to globally recognized platforms.

• Built and scaled an AI powered SaaS platform to 30K+ active users as a solo engineer, owning everything from product architecture to AWS infrastructure and deployment.
• Engineered production RAG pipelines using OpenAI, Claude, OpenRouter, and vector embeddings to enable intelligent search and workflow automation.
• Built and published AI powered Chrome extensions integrating DeepGram voice transcription and contextual data extraction.
• Designed serverless architectures using AWS, Bref, Redis, and PlanetScale to maximize scalability while controlling infrastructure costs.
• Contracted with SpinupWP to build automated server management features, extending their Laravel backend and Ansible job pipeline to orchestrate WordPress plugin updates across thousands of cloud servers simultaneously.
• Served as sole engineer and DevOps for The Points Guy from its earliest days, migrating the platform from a single WordPress VPS to a scalable AWS infrastructure that grew to serve over 12 million monthly users.
• Consulted for SaaS and B2B clients on API design, cloud architecture, and Laravel based microservices.

Provided technical leadership for a connected hardware and subscription platform integrating IoT, ecommerce, realtime data, and content systems.

• Led technical direction for the sleep.me platform, integrating realtime sleep tracking data, IoT hardware, and commerce systems.
• Architected and deployed a centralized identity platform using AWS Cognito, unifying authentication across web, mobile, Shopify, APIs, and IoT systems.
• Designed and built a Go based subscription API for device launch, integrating Shopify payments, Recharge billing, and AWS Lambda services.
• Implemented a serverless content API layer to optimize CMS performance, reduce infrastructure costs, and improve global response latency.
• Collaborated cross functionally with Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Operations to align technical architecture with business objectives.
• Delivered a modern Vue/Nuxt frontend integrating headless Shopify, CMS, and internal APIs with strong focus on performance and SEO.

Led engineering efforts to rebuild and scale the company’s core commerce platform.

• Directed full rebuild of legacy systems into a modern Laravel backend, API, and frontend platform.
• Enabled revenue growth from $1.1M to $12M+ annually within five years of platform launch.
• Built a scalable custom ecommerce engine supporting 600K+ product SKUs and complex customer account management.
• Automated order dispatch across 13 production facilities in the US and Canada through third party API integrations.
• Owned AWS infrastructure and DevOps strategy, including EC2, ECS, CloudFront, ALB, S3, SQS, SES, and monitoring systems.
• Mentored engineers and collaborated with executive leadership on platform strategy and operational scaling.

Alter Imaging was a Charlotte based web agency where I grew from junior developer to Technical Director over six years, building and maintaining web products for a wide range of clients.

• Designed, built, and maintained a proprietary PHP based CMS utilized across 200+ client sites, which became the agency's primary revenue source.
• Served as lead developer and directed client discussions on technical requirements, translating business needs into scalable web solutions.