About

Brighten Tompkins

Seven years of experience with strengths in artificial intelligence, RDBMS, DevOps, typed languages, scripting, the full software lifecycle, debugging, gRPC and REST APIs, and full-stack development.

I'm a software engineer based in Fresno, California. I care about building things that are useful, maintainable, and fast enough that people actually enjoy using them.

Outside of work I DJ, crochet and knit, and sing karaoke when I can. I like meeting people who are curious about tech, music, or side projects—say hello via the links on the home page or book a chat on Calendly.

For a timeline of roles and personal projects, see Experience on the home page.

Skills

Tools & technologies

  • Golang
  • TypeScript
  • C++
  • Python
  • AI Agent Orchestration
  • gRPC
  • GCP
  • AWS
  • DevOps
  • Linux
  • SQL
  • OLAP

Education

Reedley College

Reedley, California · May 2019 – December 2021

Associate of Science, minor in Computer Science.

  • Pete P. Peters Honors program and Dean's List across multiple semesters.
  • Associated Student Government Senator.
  • Clubs and leadership—including president of the Alpha Gamma Sigma honor society.