Brenden Manquen

Full Stack Engineer

Edmond, Oklahoma, United States5 yrs 9 mos experience

Key Highlights

Expert in Full Stack Development with React and TypeScript.
Architected open-source SDKs for web and mobile applications.
Proven track record in mentoring and leading engineering teams.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Full Stack Engineer specializing in SaaS and mobile development.

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Skills

Core Skills

ReactTypescriptRuby On RailsAsp.net

Other Skills

React.jsTailwind CSSRubyPostGISPostgreSQLC#GraphQLREST APIAndroid DevelopmentKotlinNext.jsDockerKubernetesASP.NET RazorBlazor

About

Full Stack Engineer specializing in TypeScript and the React ecosystem, currently expanding into native mobile development (Android development with Kotlin/Jetpack Compose and React Native). At YouVersion, I architect and maintain an open-source React SDK with three modular packages: a framework-agnostic core API, React hooks for state management and data fetching, and a UI component library built with React and Tailwind CSS. I'm now expanding that work into mobile, becoming a primary contributor and maintainer of a Kotlin and React Native SDK — bringing the same focus on developer experience, documentation, and clean API design to native and cross-platform mobile development. I have experience with React, TypeScript, Next.js, TanStack, GraphQL, tRPC, and testing with Jest, Vitest, React Testing Library, Cypress, and Playwright. I've contributed to web design systems, maintained 90%+ code coverage, mentored engineers, and led architecture decisions. On the back end, I've worked with TypeScript, Ruby on Rails, Python, and PostgreSQL.

Experience

5 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 5 mos

Average Tenure

Current Experience

Heartwood agency

Full Stack and Mobile Engineer

Oct 2025 – Present · 7 mos · Remote

YouVersion Contract
Architecting and building an open-source React SDK with 3 modular packages: core APIs (framework-agnostic vanilla JavaScript), hooks package (React state management and data fetching), and UI component library.
Serving as the main contributor and maintainer of the SDK, ensuring code quality, documentation, and developer experience for external consumers.
Designed the SDK architecture to be framework-agnostic at its core, enabling integration across different JavaScript frameworks while providing React-specific optimizations.
Developed reusable UI components with React and Tailwind CSS for seamless integration into consuming applications.
Established patterns and best practices for SDK development, including TypeScript type definitions and comprehensive API documentation.
Expanding SDK ownership into mobile as a primary contributor and maintainer of a Kotlin and React Native SDK, applying the same developer experience and API design principles to native Android (Kotlin/Jetpack Compose) and cross-platform mobile development.

TypeScriptReact.jsReact

Ourtechnology

Full Stack Engineer

May 2024 – Aug 2025 · 1 yr 3 mos · Remote

Developed and architected a multi-tenant Ruby on Rails case management application, enhancing data tracking for clients.
Developed a lightweight dynamic front-end application public-facing app using HTMX, Astro, Tailwind, and Alpine, significantly improving user interactions.
Created an embedded version of our public-facing app with a JavaScript script for clients to embed on their own websites.
Leveraged PWA technologies to create mobile apps from our web application.
Utilized PostGIS with PostgreSQL for efficient geospatial data management, optimizing retrieval processes.

RubyRuby on Rails

Northrop grumman

Software Engineer

Oct 2023 – May 2024 · 7 mos

Guided the front-end team at Northrop Grumman in selecting and implementing an optimal tech stack as a subject matter expert.
Developed comprehensive C#, .NET, and REST API Design Standards documentation to enhance team efficiency.
Migrated database from AllegroCache to MySQL.

C#ASP.NET

Youversion

2 roles

Software Engineer

Mar 2023 – Oct 2023 · 7 mos · Edmond, Oklahoma, United States · On-site

Created web features for churches and content creators to collaborate on the app using React and TypeScript, with GraphQL, REST API, and TanStack Query to make our API calls.
Contributed to creating a web design system for web components with React and Tailwind for our web engineers to utilize.
Maintained code coverage for unit and integration testing of at least 90% using Pytest for the back end, and Jest and Cypress for the front-end testing.
Migrated our React app to Next.js.
Mentored and guided lower-level engineers.
Performed code reviews to help ensure that our software is up to our standards, increase the quality of our software, ensure that it works cross-browser, and confirm code is well tested and clearly written.
Collaborated with the Product, Design, and QA teams to ensure that we meet all acceptance criteria from a design and product standpoint, to continually give updates on our progress, and to identify and resolve issues.

React.jsTypeScriptReact

ELP Engineer

Mar 2022 – Mar 2023 · 1 yr · Edmond, Oklahoma, United States · On-site

Maintained and updated microservices in Python, using Flask and AIOHTTP, and Ruby on Rails APIs.
Migrated parts of the app from JavaScript to TypeScript.
Performed data migrations and schema migrations on the PostgreSQL databases.
Owned and maintained feature work and bug fixes utilizing React, TypeScript, and REST for API calls.

React.jsTypeScriptReact