Brandon S. Clark

Senior Software Engineer • AWS Backend / Cloud Platform
$85M processedPayment portal handling ~250K transactions
1,200+ hrs savedAutomated data-entry eliminating manual work
<1 min / deviceProvisioning automation down from ~10 minutes
Multi-env IaCTerraform-managed dev / test / prod pipelines

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Summary

AWS backend + platform systems • APIs, serverless, and data workflows • clear execution + enablement
  • Senior Software Engineer focused on AWS backend/platform systems, serverless architecture, API integrations, and data workflows.
  • Builds secure, multi-environment automation with an emphasis on reliability, operational clarity, and measurable execution.
  • Improves team velocity through documentation, demos, diagrams, onboarding assets, and strong technical communication.
  • Uses approved GenAI tools to improve communication quality, speed up knowledge sharing, and reduce friction in engineering workflows.

Skills

  • AWS: Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions, Secrets Manager, DynamoDB, CloudWatch
  • API design, OpenAPI, partner integrations, Auth0
  • Terraform (IaC), CI/CD, multi-environment deployments
  • Python tooling, TypeScript / Node.js
  • MQTT patterns, device provisioning, constrained-device optimization
  • Data platforms, tagging systems, DocumentDB, migration and backfill scripting
  • Monitoring, dashboards, operational metrics, service readiness
  • Presentations, diagrams, docs, mentorship frameworks

Professional Experience

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Milwaukee Tool (Digital IoT Service) — Senior Software Engineer 2025–Present

  • Initiated and delivered a greenfield IoT provisioning capability (Python CLI + supporting APIs) for secure device registration, certificate generation, and bootstrapping across dev, test, and prod.
  • Reduced provisioning time from ~10 minutes to under 1 minute per device, avoiding an estimated ~100 hours of manual work in a 100-device rollout.
  • Integrated AWS Secrets Manager, Auth0 patterns, and MQTT delta updates to strengthen security and cut constrained-device payload size by ~40%.
  • Worked across IoT, security, and cloud teams to align provisioning architecture with AWS IoT Core standards and enterprise security policies.
  • Created a comprehensive README, diagrams, and demo assets that made the workflow easier for other engineers to adopt safely and reduced repetitive support friction.
  • Served as the first implementer / pilot user, surfacing governance and cloud-permission blockers early and helping turn an ambiguous prototype into a repeatable process.
  • Shared reusable demos, interactive documentation, and technical guidance that improved cross-team knowledge transfer and reduced dependence on tribal knowledge.
  • Led the TwinForge innovation sprint (2 software engineers + 2 QA engineers) in 3D modeling and AWS IoT TwinMaker, producing demo-able proof-of-concept outcomes.
  • Used approved GenAI tools to improve documentation quality, communication clarity, and the speed of knowledge-sharing workflows.

Milwaukee Tool (Digital IoT Service) — Software Engineer II 2024

  • Advanced Tool Data Foundations work by implementing a comprehensive tagging system and supporting tool-read integration into QuickLink.
  • Strengthened partner-team support with clearer documentation, better workflow visualization, and faster enablement around feature requests and data insights.
  • Expanded TypeScript reusability, OpenAPI documentation, and data-platform practices to improve maintainability and technical clarity.

Earlier roles (condensed)

  • Milwaukee Tool — One-Key Integrations (2021–2023): Oracle Unifier and partner integrations, AWS serverless integrations, Terraform IaC, API Gateway / Step Functions POCs, dynamic deep-link and PDF reliability fixes, onboarding docs, and live demos.
  • Foundation Finance (2019–2021): full-stack development, AWS-hosted portals, CI/CD, automation, and SQL-backed product work.
  • Aqua Finance (2017–2019): full-stack engineering across .NET, Java, C#, and enterprise systems.
  • Minnesota AG’s Office (2016–2017): internal application development, database work, tooling, and automation.

Selected Impact

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  • $85M payment portal — shipped a full-stack AWS-hosted web application that processed ~250,000 payments across its lifetime.
  • 1,200-hour automation — built a Java + SQL Server automated data-entry program that eliminated an estimated $40K in annual manual work.
  • Serverless request-bus — prototyped an API Gateway → Step Functions → multi-Lambda pipeline that filtered, validated, transformed, and augmented requests end-to-end in seconds.
  • Greenfield provisioning automation — moved device onboarding from manual and error-prone to a secure, repeatable workflow with <1 minute per-device execution.
  • README + demo assets — made complex workflows easier to adopt, improved setup consistency, and reduced repetitive support friction.
  • Reusable demos + interactive documentation — scaled knowledge sharing, improved clarity, and reinforced peer mentorship across teams.
  • AI-assisted drafting and analysis — used approved GenAI workflows to improve communication clarity and speed up internal knowledge-sharing materials.

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Education & Credentials

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Certifications

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

Education

  • University of Wisconsin–River Falls: B.S. Finance, Minor in Computer Science

Profiles