Brandon Rhodes
Software Engineer at Dropbox Inc
Goshen, Indiana, United States
Summary
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RockstarBrandon Rhodes is a seasoned software engineer with 27 years of experience, based in Goshen, Indiana, known for pragmatic Python craftsmanship and a long track record of open-source contributions. He maintains scientific astronomy libraries (notably pyephem) and developer utilities like logging_tree, combining domain-heavy numerical code with robust tooling and tests. His work spans backend and full-stack projects—from livegrep and urllib3 test automation to Pandas tutorials and network programming examples—demonstrating strengths in reliability, refactoring, and performance. Regular conference speaking and well-documented repositories (including python-patterns and the 500lines build-system experiments) reveal a talent for explaining complex concepts and turning lessons into reusable code. He brings a hobbyist’s curiosity that repeatedly yields production-quality libraries used by practitioners and educators alike.
27 years of coding experience
Github Skills (33)
dependency-management10
unit-testing10
caching10
lib10
python10
testing10
pandas10
http10
object-oriented-programming10
httpc10
network-programming10
data-structure10
design-patterns10
regular-expression10
http-client10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
brandon-rhodes/python-patterns
Oct 2016 - Jan 2021
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 173 commits, 9 PRs in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Brandon contributed to documentation and code examples related to design patterns, specifically the Decorator pattern, within the `python-patterns` repository. They created and modified files related to the Decorator pattern, exploring implementations with Python, including a verbose and dynamic wrapper and a tactical wrapper, creating sample code for the documentation. They also began working on the Iterator and Abstract Factory patterns.
python-patternspythoncode-behindpatterns
brandon-rhodes/pycon-pandas-tutorial
Mar 2015 - Oct 2022
PyCon 2015 Pandas tutorial materials
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 release, 3 reviews, 134 commits in 7 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Brandon's commits primarily involve the creation and modification of a Jupyter Notebook titled "Diagrams.ipynb," suggesting a focus on data exploration and visualization. Their initial contribution was setting up the development environment by installing required libraries. Subsequent commits demonstrate their investigation of the Pandas library, which involved loading data, inspecting data types, and utilizing grouping operations. The user also implemented styling for the output dataframes using custom CSS.
pythonpycondata-sciencepandas-tutorialpandas
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