Brandon McQueen

Sole engineer for an AI powered SaaS platform, plus independent product and consulting work.

• Built and scaled SaaS platform to 40K+ active users as a solo engineer, owning product architecture, the Laravel / Vue application, AWS infrastructure, and deployment.
• Engineered production RAG pipelines using OpenAI, Claude, OpenRouter, and Pinecone vector embeddings to power semantic search and workflow automation.
• Designed a serverless architecture on AWS with Bref, Redis, and PlanetScale that scales with demand while keeping infrastructure cost low.
• Built and published AI powered Chrome extensions integrating Deepgram voice transcription and contextual data extraction.
• Contracted with SpinupWP to extend their Laravel backend and Ansible job pipeline, orchestrating WordPress plugin updates across thousands of cloud servers simultaneously.

Technical lead for the chilisleep to sleep.me relaunch: a connected hardware and subscription platform spanning IoT, ecommerce, realtime data, and content. Promoted to Staff Engineer as one of the first two at that level in a 30+ person engineering org.

• Architected and deployed a centralized identity platform on AWS Cognito, unifying authentication across web, mobile, Shopify, public APIs, and IoT devices; it became the foundation every team built on going forward.
• Designed and built a Go based subscription API for the device launch, integrating Shopify payments, Recharge billing, and AWS Lambda services.
• Led the TypeScript / Vue + Nuxt web platform integrating sleep tracking data, device management, CMS, subscriptions, and headless Shopify commerce, with a strong focus on performance and SEO.
• Implemented a serverless content API layer that reduced CMS infrastructure cost and improved global response latency.
• Partnered with Product, Marketing, and Operations leadership to align platform architecture with launch and revenue goals.

Led the design, rebuild, and scaling of the company's core commerce platform.

• Directed a full rebuild of legacy systems into a modern Laravel backend, public API, standalone Vue frontend, and order processing platform.
• Enabled revenue growth from $1.1M to $12M+ annually within five years of platform launch.
• Built a 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 (EC2, ECS, CloudFront, ALB, S3, SQS, SES, monitoring); mentored engineers and advised executive leadership on platform strategy and operational scaling.

Contract engineering and DevOps alongside my full time roles.

• Served as sole engineer and DevOps for The Points Guy (thepointsguy.com) from its earliest days, migrating the platform from a single WordPress VPS to scalable AWS infrastructure that grew to serve 12M+ monthly users.
• Advised SaaS and B2B clients on API design, cloud architecture, and Laravel based microservices.

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.
• Led the development team and directed client technical discussions, translating business requirements into scalable web solutions.