Braden Bowers

Braden Bowers is currently the Director of Software Engineering at American Auto Shield. In this role, they have built an engineering organization and culture from the ground up and successfully transformed the company's legacy management system. Prior to this, Braden was a Software Engineering Manager at American Auto Shield, where they built a .NET/Azure Cloud practice for the Contract Management System.

Before joining American Auto Shield, Braden worked as an Independent Contractor, focusing on software engineering leadership and architecture. Braden also worked as a Mentor for Web Development Students at Thinkful, providing one-on-one mentorship to bootcamp students.

Earlier in their career, Braden held roles such as Solutions Architect at Convercent, Senior Software Engineer and Technical Lead at Healthgrades, and Senior Software Engineer at Log Rhythm. Braden also served as a Software Engineering Lead at EM-Assist, Inc. and as a Web Developer Technical Lead at Qdoba Restaurant Corporation. As an Independent Contractor, Braden developed public-facing websites and optimized templates for small business owners.

Throughout their career, Braden has demonstrated expertise in a wide range of technologies and skills, including leadership, mentoring, software development, troubleshooting, and various programming languages and frameworks such as React, Nodejs, JavaScript, JQuery, HTML, and CSS.

Braden Bowers has an education history that includes a degree in Computer Science from Devry University, which they obtained between the years 2003 and 2004. Prior to that, they attended South Dakota Mines from 1998 to 1999, also majoring in Computer Science. Before their college education, they obtained their High School Diploma from Montwood High School, where they studied from 1994 to 1998.

In addition to their formal education, Braden Bowers has acquired several certifications. In 2013, they obtained the MCPD: .NET 4.0 Web Applications certification, the MCPD: Web Developer 4 certification, the MCPS: Microsoft Certified Professional certification, and the MCSD: .NET 4.5 Web Applications certification from Microsoft. Braden also holds the Programming in HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3 specialist certification, which they obtained in 2013 as well.