Bill Branan
Hodson Director, Digital Research & Curation Center And Open Source Programs Office
Melbourne, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBill Branan is an experienced software engineering leader with 18 years building and operating cloud-native services and open-source platforms, now directing digital research, curation, and open source programs at Johns Hopkins University. He combines hands-on systems design—spanning AWS architecture, Terraform, Docker, and Java-based applications—with strategic leadership of distributed engineering teams to turn early concepts into durable production services. His background includes leading SaaS and repository projects (DuraCloud, DSpaceDirect) with a focus on multi-vendor storage integrations, deployment automation, and cost-conscious operations. Comfortable digging into technical details, he prefers enabling skilled teams through clear process, documentation, and community-driven development. Based in Melbourne, Florida and trained at Georgia Tech, he brings a practitioner’s mindset to institution-scale digital stewardship and collaborative open-source ecosystems.
18 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (130)
angular-ui10
duplication10
hydra10
open-access10
catch-all10
fedora10
ngrx10
migration10
snapshots10
database-design9
angular9
jsr9
dependabot9
vms9
rest-api9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
duracloud/mill-deploy
Apr 2019 - Jul 2021
A python3-based tool for deploying and updating the DuraCloud Mill
Contributions:1 review, 6 PRs, 6 pushes in 2 years 2 months
deployingpythondeploymentmillduracloud
duraspace/codestyle
Mar 2018 - Feb 2020
Project resources
Contributions:20 commits, 6 PRs, 19 pushes in 1 year 11 months
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