Brandon Herndon
Company Owner at Center for Geospatial Information Technology at Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrandon Herndon is a technology and operations leader in Blacksburg, Virginia, combining over a decade of engineering and program management experience as founder of Stelonic and Director of the Center for Geospatial Information Technology at Virginia Tech. Trained in aerospace and mechanical engineering and listing Virginia Tech Computer Science and Math on his GitHub profile, he blends rigorous engineering discipline with applied software and GIS systems to turn large spatial datasets into actionable decisions. A former USAF operations officer and test project manager, he brings mission-focused reliability and process rigor to research, teaching, and product delivery. He is an active contributor to cloud-native open-source tooling—having modified Cloud Foundry’s cloud_controller_ng to improve manifest diff behavior and enforce service-name uniqueness—demonstrating a practical focus on compatibility and operational correctness.
12 years of coding experience
Master of Science (MS), Mechanical Engineering, Master of Science (MS), Mechanical Engineering at University of Tennessee Space InstituteVirginia Tech
Github Skills (5)
rspec10
cloud-foundry10
back-end-development10
ruby10
api-design8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
cloudfoundry/cloud_controller_ng
Jun 2021 - Jul 2021
Cloud Foundry Cloud Controller
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 5 PRs, 15 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Brandon focused on modifying and enhancing manifest diff functionality within the Cloud Foundry Cloud Controller. They addressed issues related to ignoring specific manifest attributes like 'disk-quota' and 'memory' to maintain compatibility. The user also added comments to explain the manifest diff skips and modified tests to account for the ignored attributes, and enforced service name uniqueness in shared services in spaces.
foundrycontrollercloud-foundrysap-hanaruby
bepotts/airbnb_clone
Mar 2022 - May 2022
Clone of the airbnb website
Contributions:9 reviews, 23 commits, 8 PRs in 1 month
cssjavascriptreactairbnb
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