Brandon Pieczka
Software Engineering student @ Iowa State University.
About Me
Hi! I'm Brandon, a 19 year old Software Engineering student at Iowa State University with a minor in Artificial Intelligence. I've been developing software since I was a kid, and have always had a passion to build and try out new things. When I'm not at the computer, I like to play Soccer and workout.
Experience
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Olive (YC W25) — Software Engineer Intern — May 2025 - August 2025
As the first hire at Olive, I spent the summer working on new features nearly daily, with a total of over 20 features, as well as many bug fixes, improvements to the AI agent pipeline, and more. I'd be teaching myself new technologies for many of these features, and collaborating with the founders to figure out the best way to implement them.
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John Deere — Software Engineer Intern — Jan 2025 - May 2025
Worked on the Order Management team, upgrading many websites from legacy component libraries to modern ones. Also worked on an internal tool to help keep track of the progress across 30+ repositories.
Projects
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Emploive — The ultimate job scraper (launching ~09/24/2025).
Emploive lets users create trackers for job listings, and can choose to be notified via email or text the moment a new job comes out. Supports over 1000 companies, currently has over 70,000 jobs in the database, and is by far the fastest at scraping and notifying users compared to any alternative on the market (has notified early testers about internships at OpenAI, Ramp, Google, Figma, Notion, and more less than 2 minutes after being posted on the careers pages).
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Hedji — Beat the prediction market with live data.
Hedji compiles different live data sources such as tweets, live streams, etc, and automatically places bets when certain conditions and criteria are met (currently an abandoned project, will pick back up eventually).
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Websketch — Turn your sketches into websites.
Websketch lets users draw out a UI/website on a canvas, and uses AI agents to convert the drawings to a website, with another agent to allow users to make further modifications, add APIs, etc. Built in 24 hours for WildHacks 2025, winning best in category. (I also built an eval tool to allow experiments such as different prompts, downscaling the image before passing to an LLM, etc, but that’s separate from the hackathon)
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VoiceThief — Clone voices over the phone to make people aware of new dangers from AI.
VoiceThief was built for Iowa State’s College of Business Ivy Hackathon in 4 hours by just me, and lets people help educate those around them about potential new phishing attempts involving generative voice LLMs. VoiceThief calls users, and after initiating a short conversation, clones the user’s voice, and starts impersonating the user to themselves. Won third place.
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Codegram — Connect tutors with students with live code sharing, as well as video and audio chat.
Codegram pairs students seeking help with their code with tutors, allowing tutors to edit the student’s code live, as well as run the code and see the output & errors. It also utilizes WebRTC to enable a video and audio stream between the student and tutor. Built in 24 hours for SwanHacks 2024, winning 1st overall.