About me
Brandon Berke
Full-stack & cloud engineer with 5+ years building high-performance web apps, real-time data dashboards, and the AWS infrastructure behind them.
I move comfortably from React frontends to serverless cloud infrastructure — equally at home architecting a Medallion data pipeline or shipping an accessible, animated SPA.
Experience5+ years
Primary stackReact · AWS · TypeScript
LocationNew York
Open toFull-time roles
Selected impact
Cloud & Data Engineering
95% infrastructure cost reduction
- Cut data-infrastructure spend ~95% ($12K to <$700/mo) by replacing a legacy EMR cluster with a serverless Medallion (bronze/silver/gold) architecture on AWS.
High-throughput ETL pipeline
- Built Kafka-to-S3 ETL pipelines (Confluent connectors, EventBridge, SQS, Python/Pandas Lambdas) orchestrated with Step Functions.
- ACID upserts and schema evolution via Apache Hudi on Glue; data exposed through Athena, Redshift, and Collibra.
Kubernetes modernization
- Migrated on-prem Kubernetes to AWS EKS (Nirmata + Terraform).
- Modernized CI/CD from Jenkins to containerized GitHub Actions.
Frontend & Data Visualization
Analytical dashboards
- Built analytical dashboards in React, TypeScript, Redux Toolkit, and Apollo/GraphQL rendering financial metrics with interactive D3/Nivo and visx.
Pixel-accurate SPAs
- Translated Figma designs to pixel-accurate, animated single-page apps with Tailwind CSS and Framer Motion.
Platform Reliability
Production API outage recovery
- Restored a month-long production API outage by architecting a serverless Lambda + API Gateway layer querying Snowflake, replacing the downed backend and restoring client demos.
Zero-downtime infrastructure fix
- Averted a critical executive demo failure by importing and modifying live EKS state with Terraform and an ALB Ingress + Venafi SSL on a hard deadline.
85% hosting cost reduction
- Cut web hosting cost ~85% ($100+/mo to ~$14/mo) by migrating to serverless CloudFront + S3 + Lambda@Edge.
AI & Agents
Custom AI agents
- Build custom AI agents for automated code review and orchestrate multi-agent Claude Code systems that author Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools on the fly to QA thousands of URLs.
Industries
Energy & UtilitiesFinTech & BankingSaaS / Web Platforms
Let’s work together
Open to full-stack and cloud-infra roles. Full CV shared on request.