Brandon Drumheller
Software Engineer at Meta
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrandon Drumheller is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building reliable systems for finance and large-scale platforms, currently at Meta after several roles focused on enterprise and backend engineering. He’s fluent in Python, Java (Spring Boot), and C++, with a strong algorithmic foundation from a BS in Computer Science and Mathematics at RPI where he graduated top of his class. Brandon has a proven track record at Capital One and Meta of modernizing backend services and improving security and data correctness, and his open-source work on Submitty shows attention to secure input handling and grading-system robustness. He combines hands-on implementation with a mentor’s mindset—having taught data structures and software principles—and brings practical experience in refactoring legacy code into maintainable, secure components.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science and Mathematics, 4.00, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science and Mathematics, 4.00 at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
English, Japanese
Github Skills (7)
php10
autograd10
ed255199
sql9
database-design8
html7
javascript6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Submitty/Submitty
Jun 2016 - Feb 2017
Homework Submission, Automated Grading, and TA grading system.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 17 PRs, 72 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Brandon's contributions primarily involved refactoring and improving the code related to the TA grading server, a core component of the Submitty system. They replaced deprecated functions with secure alternatives, specifically `htmlspecialchars`, enhancing the security of the application by sanitizing user inputs. The user also made significant changes to the account management functionality, including enhancements to numeric text and checkpoint gradeables, showing a focus on improving the grading system and data order.
reactsubmittygrading-systemhomework-serverteaching-tools
bdrumheller/BDW
Oct 2015 - Dec 2020
Contributions:4 PRs, 81 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 3 months
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