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Brandon Barker — staff software engineer
tinkerer, inventor, nerd, staff software engineer. building tools that map the world — from prosthetic arms and educational learning platforms, to eye exams and self-driving HD maps. innovating for the future and pushing the boundaries of what i know — every year.
work — 8 roles
2021 →
uberstaff software engineer · marketplace data & intelligence
new york
2019
cesiumswe intern — webodm + blender + 3ds max → cesium ion 3d tiles. shipped in cesiumjs 1.61.
philadelphia
2018
comma.aiswe intern — mapping engine for 5m+ miles of self-driving data; full-stack dashboard for george hotz's kit
san francisco
2017
dokkioswe intern — cross-cloud doc search; html5 preview engine for hundreds-of-pages docs; analyzed 2tb
san francisco
2016
yurgoskyswe intern — salesforce integrations for teach for america + robinhood foundation
new york
2015
airphrameswe intern — aerial mapping + uav obstacle avoidance; live-zip micro-service for 100gb consolidations
san francisco
2014
cloudmineswe intern — hipaa android api + docker-based ci system for staging/prod testing
philadelphia
activities — 3
2018 →
hackwcufounder & lead organizer — wcu's first hackathon. 300 reg, 150 attended, $20k raised in 3 months.
wcu
2014—17
stemhacksfounder & lead organizer — first high-school hackathon in pa. $10k sponsorship, 100+ attendees y1.
stem academy
2011—17
out of the box roboticsfounder — 501(c)(3) encouraging students to engage in robotics.
coatesville
projects — 25
2020
elderlyfintelligent walker. slam + haptic feedback + jetson nano + realsense. pennapps top 10.
~/hardware
2019
elderly vibrationspath guidance for elderly. android + arcore + arduino + bluetooth haptics. dragonhacks.
~/hardware
2019
entiumentwine → 3d tiles converter for cesium. octree culling, quantization, instancing. open source.
~/cesium
2019
loopboxnlp smart-form for vc investment curation. dual-lstm semantic similarity, react frontend.
~/ml
2019
poket watcheyes for the visually impaired. react native + tensorflow + azure. voice-driven scene narration.
~/mobile
2019
nuclear visualizer1,000+ nuclear-industry companies on a mapbox static site. fuzzy search.
~/maps
2017
ycds matcherformer-students search engine. selenium scraper across fb graph, whitepages, pipl. ycdshacks winner.
~/data
2016
vibezfriends through concerts. angularjs + ionic + nodejs. outsidelands hacks.
~/social
+15 more
2016
mytransferchrome extension that reverse-engineers myhomework to sync from schoology / edmodo / blackboard.
~/extension
2016
stem classesschool-schedule + class-time-remaining tool. native code injection for notifications. 800+ users.
~/android
2014
iOculistsnellen-formula eye exam on a phone. ios + android, voice recognition. hackbca 2nd.
~/mobile
2015
boostogychrome extension that re-skins schoology. circle icons, hidden classes, infinite scroll, theme strip.
~/extension
2015
middle meetsandroid app — meet at a center-point of a friend group. java restful + yelp + google places.
~/android
2016
stemhacks adminhackathon-team dashboard — emailer, chat, broadcast, sponsor support. gae + jquery + bootstrap.
~/web
2014
ftc scoutermatch-scoring + analytics for ftc robotics. android + json + mysql + tableau.
~/android
2014
infinity cacheannotation-driven cache lib for android. clean class structure for short-term object storage.
~/lib
2015
conversation analysernlp on facebook conversations — subject extraction, sentiment. nltk + d3 + node + gae.
~/nlp
2015
bitbar screenshotquick screenshot tool on bitbar. applescript + shell + python + dock framework.
~/macos
2011
mind-control prosthetic armeeg-driven lego prosthetic. emotive epoc + bluetooth + c++ pattern recognition. dvsc 2nd.
~/hardware
awards — 11
2020
1871 awardwcu — 71 of 11,000 students recognized for academics + leadership + community + career
wcu
2020
repair the world scholarship1 of 4 wcu cs majors selected for high gpa + applied-cs vision
wcu cs
2019
top 10 · best hardware · best healthpennapps — top 10 of 1,200+; engineered slam-haptic assistive device for cross-space nav
pennapps
2019
organizers' choice · best accessibilitydragonhacks — arcore path-keeping system for visually impaired seniors
dragonhacks
2017
best ycds hackycp hacks — big-data app for finding people from minimal info via fb / whitepages / pipl
ycp hacks
2015
1st placejpmorgan chase & co — gamified-scholarships app for underprivileged kids
jpmc
2014
2nd placehackbca — iOculist eye-acuity app, won within 24 hours; inspired stemhacks
hackbca
+1 more
2011
2nd placedelaware valley science convention — mind-control prosthetic; navy, army, engineering excellence; broadcom masters invite
dvsc
articles & research — 5
wcu junior produces 3d protective gear for frontline workers3d printers in brandon's basement print covid-19 face shields, 20+ hrs/day, 7 days/week.
share massive drone captures directly from webodm with cesium ionintegration: webodm-generated point clouds, 3d models, terrain → cesium ion in global geospatial context.
massive models from blender with cesium ionblender → gltf → ion add-on, using the official khronos exporter for streaming on the web.
hd maps for the massesopen-source comma maps + entium, visualizing recorded paths and lane markings beyond paywalls.
quad trees vs spatial hashescollision-detection algorithm comparison: bucket-based vs recursive subdivision. (pdf)
education
2017—21
west chester universityb.s. computer science · b.s. business mgmt · minor mathematics
stack
~/lang $
pythonjavascript / typescriptjavahtml / css / lessbashc#c++mathematicavisualforcehaskell
~/tools $
awsandroidarcorebootstrapcesiumdjangodockerflaskgitgaegwtgradlegruntherokuintel realsensejquerymapboxmavennettynode.jsnumpypostgresreactrestsemantic uisqltwiliowebglwebpack