Brandon Casci

Somerville, MA - Portland, ME
https://www.brandoncasci.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandoncasci/
brandon.casci@gmail.com
617-233-7597

Summary

Technical founder with a successful exit and 20+ years spanning engineering, product, and business strategy. I prioritize work that moves revenue, retention, and compliance forward. Track record of inheriting messy codebases and turning them into revenue-generating products, now amplified by AI-augmented development workflows.

Skills

Ruby, Rails 8, JavaScript, React, PostgreSQL, SQL AWS, Docker, CI/CD, Multi-tenant Architecture Stripe, Twilio, AI-augmented Development (Claude Code, multi-agent workflows) A/B Testing, API Integrations, SaaS

Experience

Principal Engineer & Co-Founder

Apr 2024 - Present | Harmonic.fm & Boswell

• Owning architecture and delivery across two SaaS platforms: music marketplace (Harmonic.fm) and CBO management system (Boswell) for healthcare-adjacent organizations
• Boswell serves live customers tracking 1.2M+ cumulative household assistances across community-based organizations
• Achieved 5x productivity gains through multi-agent AI development workflows, shipping features across both production codebases simultaneously
• Implemented multi-tenant architecture with per-tenant SQLite data isolation for compliance
• Built Stripe Connect marketplace with automated payouts and revenue splitting

Contract Software Engineer

Apr 2024 - Jun 2025 | RiseKit

• Migrated and decommissioned three React applications into a single Rails 8 platform, reducing maintenance burden for a small team
• Improved test coverage across legacy systems to enable safe consolidation
• Wrote migration requirements, technical specifications, and architectural documentation

Bonterra

Feb 2022 - Aug 2023 | Contract → Senior Engineer → Lead Growth Engineer

• Led transition from Sales-Led to Product-Led Growth, enabling self-service signup and reducing onboarding time by 75%
• Launched auction product from beta to GA, generating $1M+ revenue for non-profit customers
• Increased conversion rates through A/B testing of signup flows and payment optimization
• Built multi-channel messaging system (Email/SMS via Twilio) for real-time bidder notifications
• Established team coding standards and code review processes adopted across the engineering org
• Mentored engineers while collaborating with marketing, sales, and finance on growth initiatives
• Platform serving 20K enterprise customers
• Promoted from contract to Lead Growth Engineer in 18 months

Principal Software Developer, CTO & Co-founder, bosWell, Inc.

Jul 2018 - Oct 2022

• Brought in to rescue grant-funded deliverables after the existing team could not deliver; performance earned co-founder position
• Secured $1M in angel and grant funding across two product generations
• Built HIPAA-compliant platform enabling CBOs to track care for hundreds of thousands of clients
• Established technical hiring process and conducted engineering interviews
• Drove organic growth through direct marketing and vendor partnerships

Senior/Contract Software Engineer, Concierge Live

May 2015 - Sep 2018

• Built features that acquired and retained Fortune 500 clients (Barclays, AT&T, Citrix) for corporate event ticketing, securing recurring contracts of $50K-$150K
• Built Elixir-based integration between ticket management system and Ticketmaster, enabling in-app purchases and mobile ticket transfers
• Migrated customers from competitor platforms, increasing revenue and satisfaction
• Resolved performance bottlenecks and passed security audits to close enterprise deals
• Conducted code reviews and implemented Phoenix contexts for maintainable architecture

Contract Software Engineer, Par8o

Sep 2014 - Apr 2015

• Built features for HIPAA-compliant platform enabling secure medical record transfers between healthcare providers
• Fixed critical bugs to maintain SOC2 compliance and platform stability

Career Break

Mar 2014 - Aug 2014

• Evaluated next steps after successfully exiting Loudcaster and LoudCity

Principal Software Developer & Founder, LoudCity/Loudcaster

Nov 2005 - Feb 2014

• Founded and built two SaaS products serving 1,000+ online radio broadcasters, generating $25K+ monthly revenue
• Engineered copyright compliance system processing hundreds of millions of performances annually
• Participated in Techstars Boston 2010 accelerator program
• Lobbied Congress successfully for Small Webcaster Settlement Act extension
• Built live streaming platform with audio transcoding, automated provisioning, and real-time stats
• Successfully exited to competitor in private transaction

Additional Experience

• T2 Modus (2016-2017) - Inherited and stabilized automotive CRM platform for GA release
• Various software engineering roles (1996-2005) - See LinkedIn for details

Recommendations

Brandon is the kind of engineer that is a multiplier. He not only brings a large skill set, and a dedicated work ethic, he also works hard to make the entire team around him better. He has a strong feel for what makes more maintainable code, and can lead others to see his vision. He also pushes and prods to make any solution better. Even the most elegantly implemented solution won’t deliver results if it solves the wrong problem. Having run his own business, he understands the importance of solving the most important problem first.

—Thomas Hoen Senior VP of Product Engineering, Bonterra

Brandon is an engineer’s engineer! His technical acumen helped our team write better, product-focused code and his entrepreneurial savvy helped us deliver smarter features, faster. He’s really smart and generous with knowledge. I hope we get another chance to work together!

—Mike Subelsky Consulting Software Architect

Brandon and I were paired as the core members of the Growth team at Bonterra, and we worked together for a year on a series of pioneering projects. This was such a lucky break, because in Brandon I had a true partner in finding innovative, out-of-the-box solutions to problems that were all in a completely new area for the company, with no map, and no pre-existing norms to follow. His willingness to look at a challenge with an open mind and find well-designed ways to take pieces apart and put them back together in smart, efficient, and future-proof ways that will help us scale was exactly what we needed in a growth engineer, and his entrepreneurial spirit made for a fantastic team comradery.

—Shannon Peavey Principal Product Lead, Bonterra