Brandon Barker
Scala Developer at Caesars Digital
City of Ithaca, New York, United States
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Top SchoolBrandon Barker is a Scala developer with 12 years of experience building high-performance systems that transform complex scientific and biological data into reliable, scalable services. Currently at Caesars Digital, he applies expertise in HPC, computational biology, and bioinformatics honed during a long tenure at Cornell University where he consulted on computational science and developed constraint-based models to study genetic interactions. He combines a Ph.D. in Computational Biology with a BS in Mathematics and Computer Science to bridge rigorous research methods and production engineering. Known for taking deep technical problems end-to-end, he’s comfortable optimizing performance-sensitive services and translating academic research into practical software. Based in Ithaca, NY, he brings a researcher's curiosity to large-scale, real-world systems engineering.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Mathematics and Computer Science, BS, Mathematics and Computer Science at University of KentuckyDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational Biology at Cornell UniversityGeorge Rogers Clark High School
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Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (38)
Github contributions (5)
caesarsdigital/kafka_oneshot
Nov 2023 - Jun 2024
produce and consume json messages to kafka from the terminal
Contributions:2 releases, 4 reviews, 14 PRs in 7 months
bbarker/SME
Jun 2017 - Oct 2018
Wrappers and examples for using JME3 (JMonkeyEngine 3) in Scala
Contributions:31 commits, 3 PRs, 28 pushes in 1 year 3 months
jme3scalawrappersjavajmonkeyengine
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