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Brennan Gensch

Software Developer

Today's Haiku

In the autumn breeze

Sagittarius shines bright

Snake slithers with glee

- ChatGPT 3.5

Experience

HouseRater
Lead Software Developer
Jan 2015 - Current

Direct software development teams across multiple platforms, organize sprints, design tickets, and maintain a productive relationship between technology staff and business teams

Facilitate communication and relationships with clients, providing custom tools, API’s, and individualized features per client needs

Draft and implement complex data intake systems using the MEAN stack and React. Most notably: custom validation, reporting, exporting, 3rd party API integrations, and data visualization systems

Create and maintain GraphQL APIs, allowing client’s in-house software solutions to interact deeply and securely within the HouseRater ecosystem

Plan, design, and manage deployments of multiple React web applications with varying infrastructures

Develop and maintain an efficient customizable permission structure allowing companies to ensure data protection and privacy on a per-user basis

Manage infrastructure on AWS leveraging ECS, OpsWorks, EC2, Lambda, and external services including MongoDB, Elastic Search, and RabbitMQ

Construct a MongoDB database to ensure efficiency, scalability, and data integrity

Lead development and support of a React-Native app allowing users across the country to gather and analyze data in the field offline, with automatic syncing back to HouseRater’s cloud ecosystem

Integral in building a relationship with National Renewable Energy Laboratory and the Environmental Protection Agency to become an ENERGY STAR certified energy modeling tool, expanding HouseRater nationwide

Projects

Montessoar
May 2020 - Current
Partners: Luke Beck - Teaching Expert
Tech Stack: React, Node, GCP, MUI

A free Montessori teaching resource catalog and creation tool built to help teachers create and share content to better education our future.