BRANDI NICHOLS

BRANDI NICHOLS

BRANDI NICHOLS

BRANDI NICHOLS

Creator at heart ❤️ Builder by trade 🛠️

Creator at heart ❤️ Builder by trade 🛠️

A product engineer who understands every decision bridges user experience and technical reality.

Currently focused on how to embed privacy and security into AI through design and engineering.

Building Ethical Systems

📍 Philly Tri-State

🛩️ Open to relocation

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Projects

My work is founded in meaningful impact, knowing that we as engineers and designers can imagine and build towards solutions that transform reality drives me everyday to refine my craft.

I specialize in self-hosted security and privacy tools to help break down financial barriers that otherwise make protection inaccessible. Additionally I like experimenting with new technologies and application types, particularly AI/ML and extensions.

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Skills

Being a life-long learner and user-centered builder, strengthening my skills is something that comes naturally. Anything I learn I immediately apply through projects or written material to reinforce how I should apply it to my product development process.

🛠️ Product Engineering & Development
JavaScript · React · TypeScript · Node.js · Python · APIs · Databases · Self-Hosting


🎨 Design & UX
UX/UI Design · Design Systems · Accessibility (WCAG) · Figma · Prototyping · Human-Centered Security

🔐 Learning: Secure Product Engineering

AppSec (Application Security) · Secure SDLC · Threat Modeling · Privacy-by-Design · Data Sovereignty · Compliance (CIPT, Security+)


I’m currently deepening my understanding of how to design and build secure, privacy-compliant products. My focus is on applying security and privacy principles early in the design and development lifecycle.

🌍 Values & Approach
I build technology that is open, secure, accessible, and privacy-respecting — combining design thinking with software engineering to make security usable and innovation responsible.

03

Experience

Starting out a realism artist I was looking for a challenging but creative career that allowed me to problem-solve to my hearts content, this is how I found UX design. Since then it was inevitable that I would fall into software engineering, as it's essential I be apart of the execution of whatever I build. Currently I work as an AI Engineering Fellow at Resilient Coders where I collaborate with engineers and researchers to formulate, implement, and evaluate fine-tuning methods and techniques for AI-supported features.

Starting out a realism artist I was looking for a challenging but creative career that allowed me to problem-solve to my hearts content, this is how I found UX design. Since then it was inevitable that I would fall into software engineering, as it's essential I be apart of the execution of whatever I build.

2024-Present

AI Engineering Fellow

Resilient Coders


Product Engineer

BN Build Studio

2024-2025

Software Engineer

Resilient Coders

2021-2024

Product Designer

IBM

2020-2021

UX Apprentice

Office of Natural Resource Revenue

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Play

I enjoy challenging myself with logic games like Sudoku and riddles, always pushing to see what I can solve. I also love drawing in a realistic style, getting immersed in the details—whether it's the precision of man-made objects or the organic complexity of nature.

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