Brandon Jennings

Overview

I started Saffron Energy to fix B2B payments for teams who were tired of the workarounds. Raised $19 million across 3 rounds.

Experience

1. Co-founder & COO

   Sep 2025 - Present
   Saffron Energy · 1 yr 1 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
   • Signed 226 paying customers, 4 of them enterprises.
   • Previously built and sold a small B2B payments company.
2. ML Engineer

   Oct 2023 - Sep 2025
   Netflix · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
   • Taught SQL to 129 non-analysts.
3. Staff Security Engineer

   Apr 2020 - Oct 2023
   Block · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
   • Grew the storage team from 3 to 22 engineers.
   • Reduced cloud spend on storage by 24% in two quarters.
4. Senior Android Engineer

   Oct 2016 - Apr 2020
   BlackRock · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
   • Grew the developer experience team from 4 to 23 engineers.
5. Senior Engineering Manager

   Jun 2014 - Jun 2016
   UnitedHealth Group · 2 yr · Full-time · New York, NY
   • Cut p99 latency on the developer experience services from 502ms to 92ms.
   • Led the migration of 40 services to fundraising.

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Education

1. Stanford GSB

   MBA, Business Administration
   2018 - 2020
2. NYU

   BA, Engineering
   2010 - 2014