Brandon Flude
Head of Engineering at Valley
Hey, I'm Brandon — I lead engineering at Valley, where we're building AI-powered LinkedIn outreach. Based in Kalamazoo, MI, originally from the UK.
Previously CTO at Fishbowl, where I led the team building the GRM platform for restaurants. Took First Class Honours in Computer Science at the University of Derby, moved stateside, and never looked back.
Proven turnaround CTO — I build and rescue SaaS platforms: modernizing tech stacks, growing product lines, and sharpening the experience until the platform is ready to scale. I also work with startups that want growth fast, and a platform that can actually carry it.
13+
years shipping software
30+
engineers led
50M+
profiles scaled
$100M+
pipeline generated for sales teams
2
exits
$100M+
in exits
How I work
Small teams, high trust, shipped daily — I've hired whole orgs from zero and the bar is always people who ship.
Boring tech, sharp edges — proven stacks, with AI leverage everywhere it earns its keep.
Still hands on keyboard — I ship code most days, and most of my ops run from a phone over tmux.
Own the whole thing — product, infra, on-call. If it pages, it's mine too.
Performance
Experience
Skills
Platforms
Multi-tenant SaaS
CRM / CDP
Marketplaces
MarTech
Messaging at scale
Event-driven systems
AI agents
Language
TypeScript
JavaScript
PHP
SQL
Frontend
React
Next.js
Expo
Tailwind CSS
shadcn/ui
Vue
Backend
Node.js
GraphQL
Pothos
Prisma
PostgreSQL
MySQL
Redis
Symfony
Doctrine
RabbitMQ
Snowflake
BullMQ
Infrastructure
AWS
Terraform
Docker
Kubernetes
Nginx
Cloudflare
Sentry
BetterStack
Datadog
PostHog
Railway
Terraform
Docker
Kubernetes
Nginx
Cloudflare
Sentry
BetterStack
Datadog
PostHog
Railway
Workflow
Claude Code
Nx
Turborepo
pnpm
Linear
GitHub
GitHub Actions
tmux
Ventures
Valley
joinvalley.co
AI-powered LinkedIn outreach for sales teams — $100M+ in pipeline generated for customers. The day job: I run engineering, the AI agent pipelines, and the team that ships them.
Studio
A social platform for artists — native mobile first. Because art deserves better homes on the internet than an algorithmic feed.
HQ
GitHub
The command center I run all of the above from — dashboard, automations, people, tasks, finance, calendar. Self-hostable, open source, zero npm dependencies on the server.
Writing
The Fishbowl turnaround, honestly
read
No team, no product, no infrastructure. What actually happened, 2022–2026.