Brandon S. Clark

Senior Software Engineer AWS Backend / Cloud Platform

Summary

Senior Software Engineer building AWS-based serverless backend systems, APIs, platform tooling, and data foundations for digital services. Strengths include security-first automation, serverless integrations, operational excellence (SLAs, monitoring, dashboards), and team enablement through documentation, demos, mentoring, and clear technical communication.

$85M processed
Full-stack AWS payment portal handling ~250K transactions
1,200+ hrs saved
Java + SQL automation eliminating manual data-entry work
≈10 min → < 1 min
Secure provisioning automation via Python CLI + AWS APIs
~30% faster ramp
Onboarding acceleration via README, demos, and diagrams

Core Skills

  • AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions, Secrets Manager, DynamoDB, CloudWatch)
  • TypeScript / Node.js
  • Python (automation, tooling, CLI workflows)
  • Terraform / Infrastructure as Code
  • API design, OpenAPI, partner integrations
  • Auth0 / secure credential workflows
  • Monitoring, alerting, dashboards, SLA discipline
  • Data platforms, tagging systems, ETL / backfill scripting
  • Documentation, demos, presentations, enablement
  • Mentorship, cross-team collaboration, technical syncs
  • GenAI-assisted productivity (approved tools)

Experience

Milwaukee Tool (Digital IoT Service) — Senior Software Engineer

2025–Present • Remote (WI)
  • Delivered a greenfield secure provisioning workflow (Python CLI + supporting APIs) that standardized device registration, certificate generation, and secure bootstrapping across dev, test, and prod; reduced provisioning time from ~10 minutes to under 1 minute per device.
  • Integrated AWS Secrets Manager, Auth0-backed API patterns, and MQTT delta updates to improve security and reduce constrained-device payload size by ~40%.
  • Partnered with leadership to define service SLAs, identify monitoring gaps, and launch an operational dashboard that improved visibility into service health and delivery expectations.
  • Authored comprehensive README documentation plus reusable demos and interactive diagrams that reduced onboarding friction and accelerated contributor ramp-up by an estimated ~30%.
Additional leadership and communication highlights
  • Designed a structured peer-mentoring approach with recurring cadence, feedback loops, and reverse-mentoring moments to strengthen collaboration and learning.
  • Delivered cross-team presentations and readouts that used visuals, surveys, and structured Q&A to improve adoption and stakeholder alignment.
  • Led an innovation sprint team in an unfamiliar domain (3D modeling, Blender, and AWS IoT TwinMaker), helping software and QA contributors produce demoable proof-of-concept outcomes.
  • Proactively drove technical synchronization and knowledge-sharing on topics such as device security, Terraform deployment details, and new workflow patterns.

Milwaukee Tool (Power Tool Data / Digital IoT Service) — Software Engineer II

2024 • Remote (WI)
  • Implemented a comprehensive tool-data tagging system and supported V2 tool-read integration work into QuickLink as part of Tool Data Foundations.
  • Strengthened partner-team support through better documentation, clearer task organization, workflow visualization, and higher-signal technical communication.

Milwaukee Tool (One-Key Integrations) — Software Engineer

2021–2023 • Remote (WI)
  • Built and supported external partner integrations on AWS serverless services (API Gateway, Step Functions, Lambda, DynamoDB) using Terraform as Infrastructure as Code.
  • Delivered Oracle Unifier integration work across UI and back-end layers, plus documentation, demos, and API doc improvements that reduced ambiguity for QA and stakeholders.
  • Improved reliability across environments through fixes such as dynamic deep-link generation and PDF-report behavior, while producing design diagrams and onboarding assets that scaled team knowledge.
Earlier experience (condensed)

Foundation Finance Company — Full-Stack Developer

2020–2021
  • Designed and delivered AWS-hosted web applications, CI/CD pipelines, and client-facing portals at production scale.
  • Shipped payment-portal features, authored internal coding standards, and improved API documentation quality.

Foundation Finance Company — Software Developer

2019–2020
  • Built automation tooling that reduced manual work and improved the reliability of internal business processes.
  • Developed web platforms using JavaScript/Node, React, SQL, and cloud services.

Aqua Finance — Web / Software Developer

2017–2019
  • Delivered full-stack solutions across .NET, Java, C#, and enterprise systems while rapidly expanding scope and ownership.

Minnesota Attorney General’s Office — Application Developer

2016–2017
  • Built and supported internal applications and database-backed tools; improved error handling and developer productivity.

Certifications

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA-C03)
  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C01)

Education

University of Wisconsin–River Falls

B.S. Finance • Minor: Computer Science