Brandon Sturgeon
Senior IT Developer at Florida Blue
Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrandon Sturgeon is a Senior IT Developer based in Florida with 12 years of experience building and operating web platforms, databases, and product-focused digital services. He combines hands-on web and backend engineering with product management skills, having led content architecture, prototyping, and cross-team delivery for online medical guides and ecommerce systems. At Software602 and BinaryNow he architected ecommerce, licensing and hosting migrations that cut costs and scaled services to hundreds of thousands of users, and at Florida Blue he continues to apply that full-stack operational expertise. An active open-source contributor, he has improved core back-end logic in the popular Wiremod Garry’s Mod project, addressing security, performance, and weapon/ammo systems. Known for bridging technical depth with marketing-savvy (SEO, PPC, large-scale email campaigns), he brings a pragmatic blend of systems administration, database marketing, and product sense.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
AS, Database Technology, AS, Database Technology at Florida State College at Jacksonville
Github Skills (6)
lua10
game-development10
garrysmod10
api-design8
optimization7
error-handling7
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
wiremod/wire
Jan 2018 - Jan 2023
Garry's Mod add-on that allows users to wire up components in order to make more elaborate automatic and user-controlled contraptions.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 8 commits, 10 PRs in 5 years
Contributions summary:Brandon primarily worked on the back-end logic of the Garry's Mod add-on, specifically focusing on the Wiremod's expression2 system. Their contributions include fixing and improving weapon-related functionalities by modifying ammo type functions and converting them to return ammo names. Additionally, they addressed potential security issues and made optimizations to the ranger module, which involved clamping ranges and preventing potential abuse. Furthermore, the user revamped and improved the constraint core's code, adding new features and fixing existing issues.
controlledmodgarry-s-modin-orderadd-on
CFC-Servers/cfc_earmuffs
Aug 2019 - Aug 2023
[Beta] OSHA-Compliant addon to combat combat noises while in Build mode
Contributions:1 review, 14 PRs, 89 pushes in 3 years 11 months
combatcompliantnoisesaddonwhile
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