About.
Staff-level frontend and product engineering. Consulting since 2005.
How I work
Senior judgment, practical execution, clear communication.
Good consulting should make the work easier to understand, easier to ship, and easier to 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.
Philosophy.
The philosophy is simple: solve the right problem, then build it well.
Strong engineering is not just code output. It is choosing useful scope, reducing avoidable complexity, and creating systems that teams can keep improving.
I use modern frameworks when they make the product easier to build, test, deploy, and maintain. The goal is durable progress, not novelty for its own sake.
About Brandon.
Brandon Quintana is a staff-level frontend and product engineer, and the founder of Brandon Quintana Consulting. He has been consulting 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.
- Staff-level frontend and product engineering experience across consulting, startup, agency, and enterprise environments.
- Built and maintained complex React, Next.js, TypeScript, GraphQL, Redux, Node.js, Storybook, Jest, Playwright, and CI/CD systems.
- Prior full-time engineering experience as the first engineering hire at Aerodome, later acquired by Flock Safety. That role is background, not a client engagement.
- 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.
- Full resume available on request, but most client conversations start with the current business problem and the outcome you need.
Present and previous clients.
Companies Brandon has consulted with. Aerodome, described above, was prior employment.
- 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
- Loggly
- 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