Brandon White
Senior Software Engineering Consultant at Verizon
Breckenridge, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrandon White is a Senior Software Engineering Consultant based in Colorado Springs with seven years of experience building and operating exabyte-scale data management systems. He led Rucio deployment and development at Fermilab, coordinating data curation for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory and enabling global high-energy physics workflows. A backend specialist, he contributes to the Rucio open-source project—improving database interactions, caching, account limits, and CLI behavior—to reliably manage scientific datasets. Formerly a U.S. Marine Corps geospatial intelligence sergeant, he brings disciplined data stewardship and operational experience managing multi-terabyte geospatial servers under mission constraints. He holds an MS in Computer Science from UIUC and blends research-grade data management with enterprise delivery at Verizon. An understated strength is his ability to translate complex scientific data requirements into pragmatic, production-ready backend improvements.
6 years of coding experience
Elgin Community CollegeComputer Science, Computer Science at Palomar CollegeMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Northern Illinois University
Github Skills (12)
postgresql10
backend10
python10
back-end-development10
data-management10
databases9
database9
distributed-systems9
database-api9
account-management9
configuration-management9
caching9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
rucio/rucio
Jun 2019 - Feb 2020
Rucio - Scientific Data Management
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 38 PRs, 20 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Brandon primarily contributes to the Rucio backend, addressing bugs and implementing improvements to core functionality. They made modifications to the client and core components to improve their behavior. The contributions include adjustments to database interactions and caching mechanisms. They also worked on features related to account limits and fixing CLI interactions, which are key backend management tasks.
heterogeneous-systemsdata-managementsciencescientific-data-managementdistributed-systems
slaclab/rubin-rucio-deploy
Jun 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:125 PRs, 71 pushes, 1 comment in 2 years 10 months
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