I've managed mixed teams of engineers, designers, UX, QA, ops, and more.
Attract leads, convert visitors, grow seat counts, upgrade feature tiers, improve churn.
I've architected sites with 200,000+ LOC, 4,000,000+ users, and $500,000,000+ ARR.
Get approval from users and stakeholders. Plan, research, design, and codify.
"Brandon has been an incredible manager who always supported me, provided a space to share what is on my mind, and has been a great mentor."
"Brandon really knows his stuff. When a problem arises he provides a range of options for how to resolve with pros and cons of each approach."
"Brandon is a prime example of a team player. I often hear, 'He helped me with that.' I appreciate the positive energy. Thanks for being awesome!"
"Brandon's great at planning modular, reusable components for a self-service kit of parts."
My Favorite Quote
"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
- Maya Angelou
I frequently re-build my portfolio in order to learn new techniques. It currently uses Nuxt (Vue) hosted on Vercel. The Lighthouse score is 100 with no known accessibility errors. My preferred testing platform is Cypress.io.
I've built this site using Squido, Middleman, Next.js (React), Svelte, Riot.js, Angular, Polymer project, and Meteor.
I've integrated with dozens of different CMS like Netlify CMS, Wordpress, Ghost, Kirby, Sanity, Forestry, Prismic, Contentful, Strapi, and Dato.
I programmed websites before CSS existed and quickly learned & love vanilla CSS. I worked from scratch for over a decade, and am up to date with advanced modern CSS techniques. I have experience with frameworks like Tailwind, Bootstrap, Bulma, and others.
The site has been hosted on GitLab Pages, Netlify, Firebase, Bitbucket, VPS, and home-grown server hardware using Docker, TurnKey Core Linux, or Vagrant.
This is a good coding tip https://t.co/lmCLiNp1ku
— BrandonMLyon (@brandon_m_lyon) August 31, 2021
A Software Tester Walks Into A Bar
What happens when a QA engineer is set up with a familiar joke?
Someone has to specify how a door works. It's not as obvious as you might think.
Pilots vs Maintenance Engineers
Here are some funny examples of what can happen when you write bug reports without enough details.
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