Braden Watkins

Summary

  • Software Engineer at Microsoft with more than six years of professional experience
  • Experienced in building cloud services and web applications with an emphasis on reliability, maintainability, and performance
  • Core technologies: C#, .NET, Azure, Cosmos DB, Kusto, Go, TypeScript, JavaScript, and React
  • Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Brigham Young University

Experience

Microsoft

Software Engineer | May 2020 to Present
  • Build and operate cloud services, delivering product features while improving reliability, latency, and maintainability
  • Work across service development and operational engineering using C#, .NET, Azure, Cosmos DB, and Kusto

SAP + Qualtrics

Software Engineering Intern | May 2019 to May 2020
  • Built systems that streamlined translation workflows and reduced processing time and cost by 90%
  • Collaborated with contributors across Utah, Seattle, and Dublin using Go, React, JavaScript, Docker, and Jenkins

Domo

Software Engineering Intern | May 2018 to May 2019
  • Improved search navigation and helped migrate a production frontend from AngularJS to React
  • Simplified the frontend architecture by removing thousands of lines of obsolete code

Provo Missionary Training Center

Senior Student Developer | February 2017 to May 2018
  • Led development of an Angular onboarding application and trained new student developers
  • Built internal applications with Angular, Java, Spring Boot, and Oracle

Education

Brigham Young University

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science | April 2020
  • Minor in Business Management; GPA: 3.95
  • President of the BYU Association for Computing Machinery during the 2019-2020 school year
  • Raised more than $10,000 for club programming and coordinated events with companies including Apple, Google, and Microsoft