From Office Depot to Vercel: A non-traditional AI engineer path
brandon_galang · x · 2026-08-27
Brandon Galang shared his career path: starting at Office Depot and State Farm, moving through technical roles at Intel and Amazon Ads (Causal Inference), an MBA at Yale, dropping out of Georgia Tech OMSCS, working in Web3 and food tech startups, and finally landing as an Applied AI GTM Engineer at Vercel.
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