About.
Staff-level frontend and product engineering. Independent since 2005.
Staff-level judgment, practical execution, clear communication.
Solve the right problem, then build it well. Good consulting makes the work easier to understand, ship, and maintain after the engagement is done.
- Strategy.
- Clarify the product goal, technical constraints, risks, and shortest practical path before the team commits time and budget.
- Design.
- Collaborate with designers and stakeholders so the interface supports real users, business goals, and maintainable implementation.
- Development.
- Build web products with React, Next.js, TypeScript, Node.js, and GraphQL, including testing and release workflows.
- Product systems.
- Real-time interfaces with WebSockets, server-sent events, and WebRTC, Mapbox maps, and Supabase apps for auth, data, and storage. Custom content and admin tools on Next.js and Supabase when an off-the-shelf CMS is the wrong fit.
- Experience
- 30 years building software
- Independent since
- 2005
- Course Hero partner since
- 2018
- Clients
- 50+
BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara. Based in the SF Bay Area, working with teams across the US.
About Brandon.
Brandon Quintana is a staff-level frontend and product engineer, and the founder of Brandon Quintana Consulting. He has been independent since 2005. The practice helps startup founders, VC portfolio companies, and agencies ship web products with React, Next.js, TypeScript, Node.js, and GraphQL.
Since 2018, BQC has been a long-term partner to Course Hero, now part of Learneo, on a custom full-stack JavaScript app for the legal section and careers, and on the WordPress blog. BQC also built the Learneo corporate site. He is based in the SF Bay Area and works with teams across the US remotely.
Before this chapter of the consulting practice, Brandon was the first engineering hire at Aerodome. Aerodome was acquired by Flock Safety about 17 months after he joined. That was prior full-time employment, separate from client work.
Brandon holds a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and brings a steady, collaborative style to mentoring engineers, reviewing code, shaping architecture, and helping teams make better technical decisions.
Experience highlights
- Built and maintained complex React, Next.js, TypeScript, GraphQL, Redux, Node.js, Storybook, Jest and Vitest, Playwright, and CI/CD systems.
- Managed and mentored in-house, offshore, and fully distributed engineering teams through code reviews, design reviews, technical guidance, and knowledge sharing.
- Led development for brands including Google, YouTube, AT&T, TiVo, Stanford, New York Philharmonic, Intuit, HP, Glad, JC Penney, Wells Fargo, Sephora, Michael Kors, Airbnb, Universal, Yahoo, and American Express.
- Deep understanding of the software development lifecycle, including product discovery, user stories, UX/UI design, testing, performance, accessibility, and release workflows.
Clients.
A selection of the companies BQC has consulted with. Independent since 2005.
- Course Hero
- Learneo
- Intuit
- Clorox
- TiVo
- Shaklee
- YouGov
- Canaan Partners
- Hero Digital
- Vidyo
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- Stitch Labs
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- 3DimensionED
- Accelerating Possibilities
- Black Pearl Systems
- Bonfire Labs
- Canaan Partners
- Candi Controls
- City CarShare
- CLICK by CLICK
- Clickography
- Clorox
- CollegeSwapper
- Course Hero
- Direct Commerce
- Electrify Media Productions
- Gongoora
- Grio
- GT Nexus
- HealthLoop
- Hero Digital
- Induce Media
- Inertia Technology
- Intuit
- Learneo
- LiveFIT Personal Training Gym
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- mamla
- Marketcetera
- Message Bus
- Mighty Digital Group
- Mint Reaction
- Monsoon Company
- Mondo
- Open Culture
- Origo Networks
- Prescribe Wellness
- Productsy
- Publiture
- Reliance Communications
- Responsive Path
- RetailQuest
- Right Mix Marketing
- Rolling Orange
- Shaklee
- SolutionSet
- SPORT195
- Stitch Labs
- tenXer
- The Creek Covenant Church
- TiVo
- Tradeline
- tuul
- VeloWerks
- Versatyle Design
- Vidyo
- Woodside Capital Partners
- YouGov