Brandon Toone
Herriman, UT0
Senior Software Engineer | Ruby, Rails, Web Development Specialist | SaaS Product Expert | Monolith Architecture Advocate | Passionate about Agile Mentorship and Breaking Complex Problems
Senior backend engineer who builds scalable SaaS systems and leads engineering teams through technical transformation, with a focus on AI-era startups.
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AI Dev Assistant
Local-first AI developer assistant CLI in Go
A command-line developer assistant using OpenAI and Ollama featuring modular design with vector memory and RAG capabilities for enhanced development workflows. Built to improve developer experience by integrating LLM capabilities directly into local development environments.
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Semantic Commit Notation
Framework for expressing meaningful changes in text-based projects
A framework standardizing commit messages to capture intent and structure. Provides shared Git tooling and templates for consistent collaboration across teams and projects. Simplifies communication of changes in version-controlled work.
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Model Probe
Schema visualization tool for ActiveRecord codebases
Contributed to a schema visualization tool that improves developer experience in large ActiveRecord codebases by visualizing model relationships, attributes, and database structure in real time.
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ApprovalTests.Ruby
Ruby port of the ApprovalTests framework
Helped maintain the Ruby port of ApprovalTests, a testing framework enabling developers to verify complex outputs (text, JSON, HTML, images) by comparing against a known approved version. Provides an alternative to traditional assertion-based testing for large or changing outputs.
Experience
Senior Software Engineer – Team Lead
Payment BoxDec 2025 — Present · Orem, Utah, United States
Led the engineering team for a unified commerce-data and fraud platform ingesting payment-processor files and live transaction streams. Modernized a legacy Rails monolith into a modular, AI-native platform while establishing the team's engineering processes, architecture standards, and SOC 2 compliance gates. Built the team's AI-native development harness with Claude Code plugins and custom agent infrastructure, executed zero-downtime migrations across 53M+ row tables, and shipped flagship analytics dashboards and self-service onboarding surfaces.
Senior Software Engineer
Corporate ToolsFeb 2025 — Oct 2025 · Spokane, Washington, United States
Served on the Phone Service team modernizing a legacy Rails monolith into a scalable service architecture for VoIP and SMS/MMS messaging. Designed and delivered a REST-based microservice for SMS/MMS handling, integrated with third-party messaging APIs (TSG Global, Intelliquent/Sinch), and deployed on Kubernetes. Instrumented domain-level telemetry to diagnose performance issues, led a cross-team CI/CD overhaul reducing deployment time from days to hours, and championed TDD practices improving test coverage by 40%.
Senior Software Engineer
ClickFunnelsJan 2023 — Dec 2024 · Boise, Idaho, United States
Contributed to Payments and Affiliates teams, leading efforts to re-architect critical systems supporting $100MM+ in annual transaction volume. Designed and implemented payment systems integrating with Rebilly, Bluesnap, and Payments.AI, built high-throughput APIs handling thousands of transactions per second, and designed scalable solutions for 140k+ affiliates including tiered commissions and performance dashboards. Implemented fraud monitoring tools and GDPR-compliant data removal processes.
Senior Software Engineer – Team Lead
Ion SolarApr 2022 — Jan 2023 · Orem, Utah, United States
Led a small engineering team maintaining and modernizing multiple web and mobile applications across PHP/MySQL, Rails, React, and Angular. Introduced TDD, agile user stories, Scrum, and Kanban analytics to improve delivery speed. Led Salesforce and Enphase API integrations for real-time solar equipment monitoring and conducted a system audit identifying production environment risks in legacy PHP applications.
Education
Westminster University
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Jan 2000 — Jan 2004
Minor in Business Studies
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Skills
Large Language Models (LLM)Natural Language Processing (NLP)TDDSoftware as a Service (SaaS)Stripe ConnectPaymentsAffiliate MarketingPayment SystemsPayment GatewaysPayment Card ProcessingActiveRecordWeb Services APIVue.jsTailwind CSSContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)Continuous Integration (CI)