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Brandon Carroll

Senior Technical Product Marketing Manager at AWS · CCIE Security #23837

I build the demos, labs, and curriculum that make technical field organizations self-sufficient — my job is making hard technology teachable. Author of six networking and security books, most recently Securing the AWS Cloud (Wiley, 2025), and 21 Pluralsight courses. These days I build with agents daily: MCP servers, Claude Code skills, and pipelines that turn repeatable workflows into working tools.

Selected work → work.brandonjcarroll.com

Projects

  • Bit & Grain — production SaaS for skilled-trades businesses, built and run with agentic tooling from schema through deployment. Live product; private repo.
  • docwalk — record a SaaS walkthrough, get step-by-step documentation. Chrome extension + Claude Code skill.
  • blog-factory-skill — agent-skill pipeline: SEO research → long-form draft → human-tone pass → cover image → publish.
  • gsd-kanban — dependency-aware kanban that computes which project phases can safely run in parallel. Zero-dep, MIT.
  • ynab-mcp — MCP server for YNAB: budgets, transactions, and categories from Claude.
  • plaid-mcp — read-only MCP server for Plaid: accounts, transactions, holdings.

Elsewhere

LinkedIn · Pluralsight · Blog

AWS Community Builders & Heroes programs · former Cisco Champion · Tech Field Day delegate · bylines at TechRepublic and TechTarget

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  1. blog-factory-skill blog-factory-skill Public

    AI coding agent skill: SEO keyword research → long-form blog post → human-tone cleanup → cover image → database insert. End-to-end blog content pipeline.

  2. docwalk docwalk Public

    Record a SaaS walkthrough, generate step-by-step documentation. Chrome extension + Claude Code skill.

  3. gsd-kanban gsd-kanban Public

    Dependency-aware kanban board for GSD planning projects: a per-sprint board that also computes which phases are safe to run in parallel. Zero-dep, config-driven, MIT.

    JavaScript

  4. plaid-mcp plaid-mcp Public

    Personal read-only MCP server for Plaid — accounts, transactions, holdings, liabilities (1Password-backed secrets)

    TypeScript

  5. ynab-mcp ynab-mcp Public

    Personal MCP server for YNAB — budgets, transactions, and category management from Claude (PAT/OAuth, 1Password-backed secrets)

    TypeScript