Brandon Pham

Software Engineer

Austin, Texas, United States4 yrs 4 mos experience
AI ML PractitionerAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • Expert in building AI-driven applications and data pipelines.
  • Proficient in AWS technologies and backend development.
  • Strong experience in data integrity and monitoring systems.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-focused Software Engineer with expertise in AI and data pipeline technologies.

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Skills

Core Skills

Amazon Elastic Mapreduce (emr)Apache SparkGraphqlAwsApache FlinkReact.jsA/b TestingPysparkRetrieval-augmented Generation (rag)

Other Skills

KinesisAWS ECSAWS BedrockSearch Engine Optimization (SEO)AWS Step FunctionsicebergAI AgentsTypeScriptCloud FirestoreFirebaseMicrosoft OfficeC++VerilogSolidWorksHTML

About

Software Engineer with experience building backend systems and distributed data pipelines on AWS. Proficient in Java, TypeScript, and Python. Passionate about GenAI applications with hands-on experience building AI agents and RAG systems. B.S. in Computer Engineering from Texas A&M University, with minors in Mathematics and Cybersecurity.

Experience

4 yrs 4 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs
Average Tenure
2 mos
Current Experience

Apple

Software Engineer

Mar 2026Present · 2 mos · Austin, Texas, United States · Hybrid

  • Strategic Data Solutions - Fulfillment Fraud

Amazon

3 roles

Software Development Engineer

Jan 2026Mar 2026 · 2 mos

  • AWS Vulnerability Management
  • Designed and built an automated data integrity monitoring system for a security detection pipeline processing billions of records daily, ensuring no failed records go undetected beyond SLA thresholds
  • Implemented the end-to-end workflow using Apache Spark on EMR with Iceberg tables, tracking failed records across 4 pipeline components, auto-resolving when reprocessed, and emitting per-component CloudWatch metrics and alarms
Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR)Apache Spark

Software Development Engineer

Nov 2023Jan 2026 · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • IT Product and Development
  • Contributed and delivered a large-scale personalization pipeline to proactively detect IT issues for all Amazonians. Built with Kinesis, Apache Flink, SQS, DynamoDB data flow to evaluate telemetry signals in near real-time.
  • Owned a Java GraphQL Employee API hosted on AWS ECS, used across a dozen internal IT Applications as a Tier-1 service reducing duplicate employee identification pipelines across teams.
  • Designed and delivered React-based IT support feedback platform backed by AWS, enabling thousands of internal users to rate IT support interactions and driving measurable service-quality improvements.
  • Led development of an AI Agent assistant for our GraphQL service using AWS Bedrock, reducing on-call load for engineers by ~20% by improving response time for onboarding and schema related questions.
Apache FlinkGraphQLAWS

Software Development Engineer

Aug 2022Nov 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Alexa AI - Local Information
  • Conducted in-depth analysis of customer queries to identify patterns with high Customer Perceived Defection Rate (CPDR). Performed customer intent analysis and ran structured A/B experiments to validate and refine response strategies, improving relevance and self-service resolution rates.
  • Developed solutions to reroute high CPDR queries to a Web-based Question and Answering API (WBQA) for more relevant responses, resulting in a worldwide reduction in CPDR by 2%.
  • Built PySpark + AWS data workflows to extract and publish customer signals, enabling development of an ML ranking model that improved local search relevance.
A/B TestingPySpark

Alchemaize, inc.

Founding Engineer

Oct 2025Jan 2026 · 3 mos · Austin, Texas, United States · Remote

  • Designed and built a full end-to-end RAG pipeline powering an AI book companion product (Ember) used by 50 users.
  • Implemented presigned S3 upload flow for large EPUB/PDF ingestion, Lambda-based text extraction, custom chunking logic, embeddings generation, and storage in user-isolated vector indexes to ensure privacy and retrieval correctness.
  • Architected the backend using AWS (S3, Lambda, API Gateway, Cognito, RDS) and developed the API layer for retrieval, chat orchestration, and metadata management.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

Fujitsu network communications

Software Development Intern

Jun 2021Aug 2021 · 2 mos · Richardson, Texas, United States

  • Member of the Software Platform team - collaborated daily in an Agile-like environment.
  • Developed “Program Board” tool with Python, a set of scripts used by engineers at FNC that automates setting up Uboot environment variables and runs an install boot to recover network server blades from a corrupt state or to completely install a new image onto the system.
  • Worked on upgrading the Linux Kernel for Fujitsu System Software (FSS) by removing duplicate component recipes, building FSS images, and testing them in a QEMU instance.

Texas a&m university

2 roles

Undergraduate Lab Research Assistant

Oct 2018May 2019 · 7 mos

  • Worked on duplicating polishing magnetic fluids while testing their efficiency and viscosity, as a lab assistant.

Undergraduate Student Researcher

Aug 2018May 2019 · 9 mos

  • Assigned as leader of the hardware team, and was tasked to design a cost-efficient, yet functional, wearable device that could house electronic components.

Education

Texas A&M University

Bachelor of Science - BS — Computer Engineering

Jan 2018Jan 2022

Hebron High School

STEM

Jan 2014Jan 2018

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