Brandon Purvis
Principal Associate - Software Developer
Herndon, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolBrandon Purvis is a Principal Associate software developer with 12 years of experience building readable, correct code across front- and back-end stacks, currently delivering software at Capital One. He thrives in collaborative teams and consistently goes the extra mile to ensure project success, pairing pragmatic engineering with a strong attention to maintainability. Brandon’s background includes improving search relevance and handling tricky edge cases for the open-source OSF.io project, where he contributed Python fixes, tests, and refactors that improved accuracy and code quality. Comfortable picking up new technologies quickly, he has practical experience with Elasticsearch tuning, document indexing, and full‑stack web development. He also brings hands-on mentoring experience from STEM outreach work, helping introduce underrepresented youth to programming. Based in Herndon, VA, he combines disciplined computer science fundamentals from the University of Virginia with a maker’s curiosity for building “interesting things.”
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at University of Virginia
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Github Skills (14)
elasticsearch10
elasticsearchquery10
aws-elasticsearch10
python10
django10
elasticsearch-api10
amazon-elasticsearch10
encoding9
unicode9
testing9
character-encoding9
encode9
regular-expression7
javascript4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
CenterForOpenScience/osf.io
May 2015 - Nov 2015
Facilitating Open Science
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:66 commits, 19 PRs, 15 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Brandon primarily focused on improving the search functionality within the OSF.io project. Their commits modified the back-end code (Python) to handle special characters in search queries for contributors, ensuring accurate results. They also implemented tests (Python) to validate these changes and ensure proper behavior. Furthermore, the user addressed code quality issues by complying with flake8 and refactored code for improved maintainability.
pythonsciencedjango-rest-frameworkdjangojavascript
brandonPurvis/osf.io
May 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:132 pushes, 22 branches, 75 tags in 9 months
pythonscienceopen-science
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