Brendan Babb
Chief Innovation Officer I-Team Director
Anchorage, Alaska, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrendan Babb is a Chief Innovation Officer and I-Team Director with 13+ years applying mathematics, machine learning, and software engineering to civic tech, open data, and government transformation in Anchorage. He pioneered the city’s i-team after co-captaining Code for Anchorage, secured a multi-year Bloomberg Philanthropies grant, and now drives human-centered design, generative AI, and data-driven decision making across municipal departments. With a research background in evolutionary computation and GPUs, Brendan holds multiple computer chip patents and recently filed a patent from Mars Rover image-compression research conducted at UAA and with NASA/JPL collaborators. He blends deep technical chops—from Matlab, predictive analytics and supercomputing to cloud ML—with practical product delivery across public and private sectors. Outside work he directs and acts in local theater and DJs, reflecting a creative streak that informs his approach to problem solving and civic engagement.
13 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
B.S; M.S. · Mathematics; Math Dept, B.S; M.S. · Mathematics; Math Dept at Oregon State UniversityStellerComputer Science, Computer Science at University of Alaska Anchorage
Spanish
Github Skills (52)
arctic10
twilio10
python9
dog9
sms9
android9
heroku9
robot9
api8
message-system8
data-science6
data-analysis6
open-data6
machine-learning6
names5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
codeforanchorage/doggle
May 2022 - Sep 2023
A fun dog name based Wordle clone made using React, Typescript, and Tailwind
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 16 pushes in 1 year 4 months
reacttailwindtypescript
codeforanchorage/land_acknowledgement
Jun 2020 - Jan 2023
Land Acknowledgement SMS Application
Contributions:79 commits, 7 PRs, 73 pushes in 2 years 7 months
smsland-acknowledgementnative-landszipcode-dataheroku
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