Résumé / October 2026
Product Engineer
LA / Orange County · Remote
brandonfigarella@gmail.comI design tools for music, games and work in the field. I define the experience, direct AI-assisted implementation and test what gets built. Co-founder of Umbra Labs and CTO of Jobworks. Open to contract work and product engineering roles.
Product direction, visual design & AI-assisted development
A place to discover, listen to and share underground music, shaped by my own life as a producer. I direct the listening experience, media workflows and visualizer development, with implementation through Claude Code and Cursor.
React · TypeScript · Cloudflare Workers · D1 + R2 · Stripe Connect · WebGPU
Co-Founder & CTO · Product design & engineering
Endpoint security across a Rust agent, ingestion backend, and native console. I connected buffered event delivery, incident investigation, and operator-controlled response.
Rust · Axum · Tonic / gRPC · SurrealDB · Flutter · YARA-X
Product direction, interface design & AI-assisted development
An Unreal asset library built around one question: what do I already own that fits this game? I directed the search, library and inspection workflows, then tested them against my own asset collection.
Electron · React · TypeScript · SQLite FTS5 · Rust / napi-rs
Co-founder & CTO · Internal alpha/closed beta with the development team; no Paintworks or external customer use. Invited by the founder to direct product and technical development. My decisions include modularity, accessible onboarding and native camera conventions for capture. AI-assisted implementation. Next.js, Expo, tRPC, PostgreSQL.
Alpha bilingual business website. Visual identity, Astro frontend, service discovery, and booking integration.
React, TypeScript, Next.js, React Native / Expo, Rust, Python, SQL, Electron, Cloudflare Workers, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Git, automated testing.
Product design, Figma, interaction design, typography, accessibility, architecture, and agentic engineering with Claude Code and Cursor.
Loom and Poppet: MCP servers for Unreal Engine and Cascadeur.
B.A. Creative Technologies · Expected December 2026
Dean’s Honors · Creative Technologies Program Representative
UX and App Design · 2021–2023
Subcontracted work orders · 2020–2023