Brett Henderson

Experience

Staff Software Engineer Jul 2024 - Mar 2026

Designed, developed, and deployed the Catalog Release protocol smart contracts, a fully featured onchain music marketplace aimed to replace existing web2 marketplaces with feature parity.
Architected REST APIs and backend services for the Catalog Release platform including search infrastructure (Meilisearch), audio transcoding pipeline, and fiat-to-crypto payment processing.
Owned technical direction for backend systems serving the platform’s entire user base.

Interim Engineering Lead Feb 2023 - Oct 2023

Led a team of 4 engineers through a complete backend modernization, migrating from NodeJS to Bun, improving response times and computational efficiency.
Mentored junior engineers on code quality, architecture decisions and best practices.

Senior Software Engineer Jul 2022 - Jul 2024

Architected and launched Catalog Radio, a 24/7 live interactive internet radio service with HLS streaming, real-time backend services, and onchain listener interactions via smart contracts.
Led infrastructure migration from Heroku to Railway, setting up CI/CD pipelines and reducing infrastructure costs while improving deployment velocity.
Developed an internal iOS application, using Swift/SwiftUI.

Software Engineer Nov 2021 - Nov 2022

Designed, developed and deployed Catalog’s first in-house smart contracts, lowering upfront costs of onchain music for artists.

Mobile / Web Developer / Production Director Aug 2017 - Jul 2019

Built the KUSF iOS app and maintained the station website. Managed the creek.fm streaming system and ran sound for live events.

iOS Developer (Contract) Mar 2018 - Oct 2018

Built an iOS streaming app for The Jazz Groove radio station with one of the early implementations of non-profit in-app donations via Apple Pay.

Languages: TypeScript, Swift, Go, C++, Python, Solidity, JavaScript

Frontend: React, Next.js, Svelte, SvelteKit, SwiftUI, UIKit

Backend: Bun, Node.js, REST APIs, PostgreSQL, Redis, Meilisearch, GraphQL, BullMQ

Infrastructure: Docker, CI/CD, GCP, Railway, Vercel, Cloudflare

Media: HLS, AVFoundation, CoreAudio, CoreMIDI, FFmpeg

Other: Git, Cryptography, Smart Contracts, Distributed Systems

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science 2017 - 2020