Brant Watson
Senior Software Engineer at Query
Lawrence, Kansas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrant Watson is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of hands-on experience building pragmatic, low-maintenance web systems from Lawrence, Kansas. He favors pragmatic backend-first architectures—Python, Django, Mypy—and deliberately avoids heavy client-side frameworks when simpler, faster experiences suffice, even shipping interactive apps with minimal or no JavaScript. His work spans backend tooling, legislative informatics, and performant caching strategies (notably preferring DiskCache over in-memory caches for many use cases), and he has continued to broaden his toolset with ongoing Rust study. At Query he brings production-hardened approaches learned through roles at DataKitchen and Propylon, combining full-stack capability with a strong operational mindset. Colleagues rely on him to reduce long-term maintenance costs while delivering user-focused, dependable systems.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at McLouth High SchoolComputer Science, Computer Science at Kansas State University
English
Github Skills (68)
django-authentication10
queue10
json10
log-in10
recursive10
utilities10
utility10
peewee10
linux9
statistics9
golang9
powershell9
authentication9
python9
backend9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
induane/logcolor
Nov 2018 - Jan 2023
Formatter allowing for colored output in log messages
Contributions:40 commits, 1 PR, 53 pushes in 4 years 2 months
log-inloggingcoloredcolored-outputformatter
induane/boltons
Oct 2016 - Aug 2024
Like builtins, but boltons. Constructs/recipes/snippets that would be handy in the standard library. Nothing like Michael Bolton.
Contributions:39 pushes, 20 branches in 7 years 11 months
recipesmichaelsnippetsstandard-librarynunjucks
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