I’m Brendan, the technical content writer at WunderGraph and a musician with a background in teaching and performing. I create blog posts, documentation, tutorials, and case studies that make complex systems clear and useful for developers. My path here started in an unexpected place: nearly 20 years of teaching and performing music.
I began teaching guitar at 17, running 40 to 50 lessons a week. At night I played in blues bands, often in smoky bars. Later, I earned a guitar scholarship at the University of Missouri–Kansas City, where I studied classical guitar under Douglas Niedt. My repertoire included Bach, Sor, Albéniz, and Takemitsu, and I performed at venues ranging from the Nelson-Atkins Museum to experimental electronic festivals. Notable performances include a solo appearance at Le Poisson Rouge in New York City and a collaboration at the Studio Loft in Denver with Central City Opera.
Musician & Performer
My study deepened in Spain, where I learned flamenco with Antonio Andrade and worked closely with Enrique Vargas. I copy edited Vargas’s multi-volume Modal Improvisation series and his book Dany Noel, The Cuban Bass: From Tradition to Modernity. Alongside that work, I wrote my own guitar method book for students. In 2014 I received an Allied Arts grant to return to Spain for intensive study with Vargas, and in 2015 I was honored with the Orville Moore Endowment in recognition of my artistic development.
Later, my focus shifted toward groove-based styles. I studied jazz with John Stowell and continued to explore improvisation with Enrique Vargas. I played in jazz, funk, and R&B groups, expanding my work beyond classical and flamenco traditions.
From Teaching to Software
That background in teaching and writing made the jump into software more natural than it might sound. At Turing School of Software & Design, I studied backend engineering with Ruby, Rails, Go, and C#. I wrote documentation for group projects, and a teacher encouraged me to pursue technical writing. From there I worked in Go at BlockFrame Inc., where I updated serializers and data models, maintained internal tools, and rewrote a legacy test suite. I also built Bonsai Bid, a full-stack Rails marketplace project with a PostgreSQL backend, CI/CD pipelines, background job processing, secure image uploads, and a responsive frontend.
Writer at WunderGraph
Now at WunderGraph, I’ve combined all of that experience into one focus: writing. I own the public-facing text across blogs, docs, SEO pages, tutorials, and case studies. I collaborate with developers, marketing, and customer success to make sure what we publish is accurate, clear, and valuable. I shape information architecture, content strategy, and ongoing distribution so that everything we create helps developers succeed.
Looking back, the pattern is consistent. Teaching taught me how to explain. Performing taught me how to adapt. Engineering taught me precision. Writing brings it all together.
What excites me now is the act of writing itself. I like breaking down complex systems until they are easy to follow. I like teaching through text, giving readers the moment when something difficult suddenly makes sense. I enjoy helping people and companies express what they’ve built or imagined in a way that connects. For me, writing is not just about accuracy, it’s about clarity, tone, and trust — the art of shaping words so ideas reach the right audience.
