Hi, I'm Brett Sanders 👋

Software Engineering Director · AI Systems Builder · Full-Stack Architect

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I'm a Software Engineering Director at Truist leading four delivery teams across web, iOS, and Android. I bring 15+ years of experience in financial services and 10 years of people leadership, spanning Team Lead, Application Development Manager, Solutions Architect, and Director roles.

Outside my day job, I design and ship production AI systems. My recent work focuses on multi-agent orchestration, agent-to-agent coordination, durable execution, model routing, and human-supervised automation.

I started coding at 12, building tools and games before YouTube, Stack Overflow, or AI coding assistants made the path easier. I still approach software with that same curiosity.

Featured AI Systems

Project	What it does	Explore
J5 Agent Fleet	Production operations platform for 95 specialized agents across 15 divisions, with Goal Mode, Slack sessions, multi-agent Meetings, durable telemetry, token governance, native apps, and local or managed-cloud execution.	Live · Technical overview
J5 A2A	Coordination layer that gives coding assistants, MCP clients, CLIs, scripts, local-model bridges, and humans shared sessions with typed events, presence, lease-aware claims, conflict detection, and durable decisions.	Live · Technical overview
J5-Trade	Automated Bitcoin research and trading system combining three quantitative strategies, LLM news sentiment, a multi-agent analyst workflow, and guardrailed risk management.	Technical overview
Johnny5	Persistent personal AI assistant powered by OpenClaw, with multi-channel communication, scheduled workflows, subagents, browser automation, and vector memory.	Technical overview

Engineering Leadership

• Lead four delivery teams responsible for customer-facing web, iOS, Android, and lending platforms.
• Attract, retain, and develop engineers; I've grown engineers into leads and leads into managers.
• Translate architecture and product strategy into reliable delivery across engineering, product, security, risk, and compliance.
• Serve as a Truist AI Champion, helping teams adopt AI-assisted development with responsible-use guardrails.
• Build high-performing teams around clear ownership, mentoring, accessibility, security, and operational excellence.

What I Build With

AI and agents: OpenAI Agents SDK, CrewAI, LangGraph, AutoGen, MCP, OpenClaw, Anthropic Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, RAG, and multi-agent systems
Applications: TypeScript, Python, C#, Next.js, React, Node.js, .NET, Angular, Swift, and SwiftUI
Cloud and data: AWS, Azure, Docker, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Qdrant, CI/CD, observability, and security pipelines

Credentials

• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
• SAFe Agile Certified
• AI Agentic Engineering Certified

Beyond the Code

When I'm not building software, you might find me playing guitar. I used to sing in an indie band.