Sixteen years shipping mobile apps used by millions — six of them running the engineering teams behind them.
I would hire and/or work with Brandon again all day, any day, any time. Few team members engage so fully, with so much heart and care about what the team is building. He also cares deeply about his code and motivating others to raise their game.
Every engagement is the same core service — senior mobile leadership that ships alongside your team. It shows up in four ways:
You have a hard deadline for a brand-new mobile product — but no senior engineer to architect the platform and stand up a team fast enough to hit the date.
I step in as launch lead and write the core architecture myself — the cross-platform foundation and the standards your engineers build against, with AI workflows from day one. You launch on time with something built to scale.
Sprints keep slipping, product and engineering have stopped communicating, and morale is low because shipping even a small update is a struggle.
I embed with the team, find where the process is breaking down, and cut the friction. Lightweight ways of working, metrics to see they're holding, and a shipping schedule you can rely on.
Your engineers are afraid to touch the legacy code, small updates trigger big regressions, and the team spends more time firefighting than building.
I don't hand you an audit and walk away. I get into the code next to your engineers, untangle the legacy parts, and clear out the debt that's been blocking your roadmap.
Much of what your team does by hand could be sped up with AI tools — but no one senior owns the rollout, so you're stuck between slow work and the risk of messy code or leaked data.
I set the guardrails to bring AI tools in safely, then coach your engineers hands-on. They get faster at debugging and code review, and the gains stay after I'm gone.
Took on a build bottleneck that was holding back a 10-person team. Led the team to track down memory issues and cut test and pipeline runtimes from 24 hours to under 30 minutes, so the team could ship on a predictable schedule again.
Owned the native iOS architecture under tight deadlines, delivering the features and redesigns that investor milestones depended on. The work helped unlock back-to-back $20M and $30M funding rounds and scaled a retail app past 800K active users.
Took ownership over a stalled year-long overhaul of a mature mobile app. Cleared out years of legacy debt and restructured the core frameworks and backend TypeScript/Node APIs, making the system more reliable and easier to maintain, with no downtime along the way.
Rebuilt and ran a 10-person engineering team, setting clear standards for how fast and how well it shipped while rebuilding trust and alignment with Product and Design partners. Hired native and cross-platform engineers, mentored senior engineers into staff roles, and piloted AI developer tools like Cursor and LLM repository indexing to roughly double output without putting the company's IP at risk.
Founders, managers, peers, and designers I've worked alongside over the last sixteen years.
Brandon is a gem. He combines a powerful work ethic with high-level mobile development skills. His real special skill is his ability to drive a team.
Brandon is one of the most talented iOS developers I've ever had the pleasure of working with. He doesn't just execute designs to perfection — he is an awesome partner and strategist.
He gets the division of responsibilities necessary for a powerful, stable mobile client. Super smart and talented engineer with clear thinking and great communication.
If you're looking for an iOS developer, your search has likely just come to an end. Brandon's a top notch developer. He cares deeply about his work, down to getting every pixel just right.
Brandon is highly capable and meticulous, especially with UI. He built a 'StyleKit' library that simplified our UI styling greatly. He was fast but always took the time to write clean code.
I worked closely with Brandon and was struck by his deep care for building the right user experience. Never backing down from trying out UI ideas, while making sure code quality was never compromised.