Skills

Novice

Adept

Master

Web

JQuery

NodeJs

React

PHP/AJAX

Flask

Native

Java

Android

CUDA

Python

ROS

DevOps

BOSH/Chef

Atlassian

AWS

Databases

Novice I have some experience but have not completed a standalone application with it.
Adept I have completed an application with this technoloy and could easily contribute to a related project.
Master I would feel comfortable leading a team in building an end to end application using this technoloy.
Databases: I am highly familiar with Relational Databases including Mysql and Postgresql. Some exposure to Mongodb.

Knave Javascript, Pixi.js, Game Design

All art and programming for Knave was done by Brandon over the course of a year. Knave is an Idle-RPG-Adventure game with almost 50 levels, different playable races, dozens of adorable monsters and a leveling system.

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Voice Activation Python, Networking

Runner up in Instructable.com's Voice Activation contest, Brandon created documenation and helpful scripts on Pocketshinx, a Text-to-Speech Library. He also created Whisper, a Python websocket service and example clients that anyone can use to create a self hosted alternative to Google Assistant or Alexa.

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Tune Golang, Networking

In order to learn the the Go language Brandon made a simple Youtube Play back syncing service that users can self host! It has simple playback syncing and ability to queue videos.

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Quoridor Java, Networking

Full featured Quoridor game completed with a group of five peers using Test Guided Development for a Software Engineering class. Brandon contributed heavily to the core features, server-client architecture and Artificial Intelligence.

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Projects

Web-app Controlled Lights IoT, Python, Arduinos

Brandon created a webserver from scratch using Python's Twisted networking library including a web API for extensibility. The project made use of writing serial commands via usb to an arduino that controlled an outlette box of relays.

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Nylon Artificial-Muscle Science

Brandon, reproducing the scientific results found by MIT was able to fabricate his own nylon material linear-actuators at home using common fishing line. So that others could do the same he produced a tutorial linked below.

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OpenWorm Robot AI, Robotics

Using code from the OpenWorm connectome project, Brandon created a piece of wrapper logic around a virtual worm's nervous system to create an AI for his robot that could move and correct course for objects only using the Worm's brain.

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Aquaponics Science

Mimicing the natural flow of the Nitrogen cycle, Aquaponics is a sustainable soiless growing method. Fish waste is converted into nutrients for plants who clean the water for the fish. Brandon maintained multiple hoddy setups where he successfully grew tomatoes, peppers, mint and basil.

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Volunteering

LEGIT Mentoring HTML/CSS, Javascript

Brandon through Liberty Enabling Girls in Technology(LEGIT) mentored students in after school programming club. He facilitated lessons and taught students basic website design skills.

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Hack NEHS Hackathon

Brandon volunteered to help orchestrate and moderate the 2017 Hack New England High Schools(NEHS) at the Microsoft center in Burlington MA. Along with other Liberty Mutual members he lead an Introduction to Git workshop.

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