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 geospatial leader with 12 years of engineering and operations experience who now runs Stelonic LLC and directs the Center for Geospatial Information Technology at Virginia Tech. He blends a strong aerospace and mechanical engineering foundation with hands-on software work—contributing backend fixes to Cloud Foundry’s cloud_controller_ng to improve manifest diff behavior and service uniqueness. His career spans the USAF, where he led test and operations programs, to academia and entrepreneurship, giving him a rare mix of mission-driven discipline and product-focused problem solving. He specializes in turning large, messy spatial and systems datasets into actionable decisions that drive lasting impact. Based in Blacksburg, VA, he pairs practical open-source contributions with institutional leadership and an emphasis on robust, testable solutions. An experienced project manager and engineer, he often operates at the intersection of data, operations, and software to deliver measurable outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
Master of Science (MS), Mechanical Engineering, Master of Science (MS), Mechanical Engineering at University of Tennessee Space InstituteBachelor of Science (BS), Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at Virginia 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.
cloud-foundrycloudfoundryruby
bepotts/Personal_vimrc
Jul 2016 - May 2021
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 11 months
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