Greater Philadelphia Area
Brandon Wlazelek
Technical Lead II · Distributed Financial Systems
I lead teams building high-scale APIs, event-driven workflows, and resilient multi-region AWS platforms for regulated financial services.
01About
I'm a hands-on Technical Lead II and Penn State computer engineer with 7+ years of experience architecting and modernizing regulated financial platforms at Vanguard.
I lead teams of up to 12 engineers across high-scale APIs, event-driven workflows, reconciliation, compliance processing, and client platforms. My work spans active-active and active-passive AWS architectures, disaster recovery, observability, incident leadership, and legacy modernization.
I stay close to architecture, code, and production operations while helping engineers deliver reliable systems. Outside work, I enjoy video games, cooking, and experimenting with practical AI projects.
02Experience
03Signature Projects
04Skills
05Terminal
Everything on this page, one keystroke away. Try help — or just keep scrolling.
06Arcade
These are the actual games I coded in college, emulated right in your browser via WebAssembly — no Flash plugin needed. A few AS3 titles may be imperfect. Powered by Ruffle.
Flappy Face
My college Java remake of Flappy Bird. This one runs as a desktop app, not in the browser — download, unzip, and flap.
07Awards & Education
Education
B.S. Computer Engineering
The Pennsylvania State University · GPA 3.22
- Wegmans Scholarship
- Decker Scholarship
- Dean's List
Awards & Recognition
- 🥇 1st place, RTS Hackathon (Dexter UI prototype)
- 💬 Stack Overflow Top Contributor
- 🛡️ Level 2 Security Champion
- 🏗️ Architecture ownership across high-scale financial platforms
08Contact
Want to talk distributed systems, platform reliability, financial technology, or why my Pong physics still hold up? My inbox is open.
bwlazie@gmail.com