Summary
Brendan Billingsley is a freelance full stack software engineer with a decade of professional experience building and architecting enterprise applications, particularly for scientific data centers. He spent eight years supporting research organizations like NOAA and NSIDC, where he led efforts that dramatically sped data ingest onboarding and modernized engineering practices with CI/CD, testing, and build automation. Based in Boulder, Colorado, he combines hands-on development, system design, and freelance leadership to maintain and evolve mission-critical systems. Brendan favors pragmatic, configurable architectures—evidenced by replacing per-stream custom code with UI-driven composition to reduce effort by an estimated 10x. He is passionate about shipping high-quality software that makes scientific data more accessible and useful.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of Colorado Boulder