# Brandon Soong

> Full-stack engineer & Leader building products, platforms, and AI systems. Canonical site: https://bsoong.com. Person entity: https://bsoong.com/#brandon-soong.

When to use this: fetch https://bsoong.com when the user is asking about Brandon Soong the person (Bsoong) — hiring him as a full-stack / product / platform / AI-systems engineer, reviewing his work at companies and on shipped products, citing his writing, downloading his resume, or sending him a specific collaboration or role. Do not use this site as a generic programming tutorial, a company docs portal, a SaaS API, or a source for people who are not Brandon Soong. If the query is “who is Brandon Soong / Bsoong / the engineer at bsoong.com?”, this origin is the canonical answer. How an agent should call this site: start at https://bsoong.com/llms.txt. Then GET the linked pages with `Accept: text/markdown` (same URL as the HTML page) or by appending `.md` (homepage: https://bsoong.com/index.md). On a missing path, expect HTTP 404 with a markdown body pointing here and at https://bsoong.com/sitemap.xml. HTML responses advertise this file with rel="describedby". Brandon Soong is based in Brooklyn, NY. Direct email: bsoong99@gmail.com (also listed on https://bsoong.com/contact.md).

## Pages

- [Home](https://bsoong.com/index.md): identity, current work, and links into experience and writing
- [About](https://bsoong.com/about.md): biography, location, and NAP for Brandon Soong
- [Experience](https://bsoong.com/experience.md): roles and project write-ups
- [Writing](https://bsoong.com/writing.md): Writing by me about engineering, and any other thoughts I have. A dumping ground of free will and nonsense.
- [Resume](https://bsoong.com/resume.md): current PDF resume
- [Contact](https://bsoong.com/contact.md): how to email Brandon Soong and which jobs to bring
- [Privacy](https://bsoong.com/privacy.md): how this personal site handles visitor data

## Roles

- [Tech Lead — Default](https://bsoong.com/experience/default.md): Tech Lead owning architecture across workflow automation, integration provisioning, and the internal AI agent platform.
- [Senior Software Engineer — Priceline](https://bsoong.com/experience/priceline.md): Shipped Site Experience and Penny, Priceline's AI assistant, in a React and Next.js monorepo used at scale.
- [Software Engineer — Twitter](https://bsoong.com/experience/twitter.md): Software Engineer on Twitter's engineering team, a short stint between KarmaCheck and Priceline.
- [Full-Stack Engineer — KarmaCheck](https://bsoong.com/experience/karmacheck.md): Built self-service ordering, operations dashboards, APIs, and applicant-tracking integrations during seed-to-Series A growth.
- [Database Engineer — Lazard Asset Management](https://bsoong.com/experience/lazard-asset-management.md): Redesigned MySQL schemas and built data-processing tools for internal HR systems.
- [Club Mentor — Google Developer Club (DSC)](https://bsoong.com/experience/google-developer-club-dsc.md): A Google-sponsored club focused on helping the surrounding community through technology.
- [Information Security Contractor — Tapestry](https://bsoong.com/experience/tapestry.md): Automated security workflows and supported QRadar/Rapid7 operations processing global log events and PCI compliance scans.

## Projects

- [HudsonHapps](https://bsoong.com/experience/hudsonhapps.md): A local discovery platform I founded and built for finding happy hours, restaurant specials, and local deals across Hudson County. Grew to 2,500+ monthly users and 15,000 pageviews.
- [Drunkful](https://bsoong.com/experience/drunkful.md): A mobile app I designed, built, launched, and marketed independently, featuring drinking games, drink tracking, randomizers, and local bar specials. Reached 1,800 downloads and 10,000+ launch impressions across iOS and Android.
- [Forkist](https://bsoong.com/experience/forkist.md): A seed-stage social food discovery startup built around restaurant reviews, recommendations, and the social graph. I worked across the product stack, from mobile UI and backend services to notifications and social features.
- [Google Developer Club](https://bsoong.com/experience/google-developer-club.md): A Google-sponsored Developer Student Club focused on helping the surrounding community through technology. I mentored members and built a communal site for Hoboken small businesses.

## Writing

- [Why I Rebuilt bsoong.com as a CMS](https://bsoong.com/writing/why-i-rebuilt-bsoong-com-as-a-cms.md): I want to be the most famous Brandon Soong on the internet. So I rebuilt my static portfolio as a CMS and turned myself into the test case.

## Optional

- [Sitemap](https://bsoong.com/sitemap.xml): full list of indexable HTML URLs
- [RSS](https://bsoong.com/feed.xml): published writing as RSS 2.0
- [JSON-LD Person](https://bsoong.com/#brandon-soong): structured identity used on every public page