Brendan Brown
Staff Engineer at Pearl Health
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrendan Brown is a Staff Engineer with 11 years of experience building full-stack systems and leading engineering teams, currently based in San Diego and working at Pearl Health. His background blends hands-on software development with renewable energy work—having served in the Peace Corps and spent many years at Arcadia focused on energy-forward products. Brendan’s engineering roots include fullstack roles at HedgeServ and a notable open-source Twitter-scraping project where he optimized scraping performance and robust data handling. He has moved from individual contributor to manager and back to senior technical leadership, demonstrating both people management and deep coding chops. Trained in government at Georgetown and later in software engineering at Coding Dojo, he brings a pragmatically interdisciplinary perspective to product and systems problems. Colleagues value his ability to translate messy, real-world constraints (from community health to rate-limited APIs) into reliable, maintainable software.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Government, Bachelor's degree, Government at Georgetown UniversityComputer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Coding DojoFlintridge Preparatory School
Spanish, Gujarati
Github Skills (12)
apim10
selenium-ide10
api10
tweepy10
selenium10
python10
webscraping10
data-processing9
json9
file-handling8
webdriver8
git4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
bpb27/twitter_scraping
Nov 2016 - Jan 2017
Grab all a user's tweets (and get past 3200 limit)
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:30 commits, 1 PR, 25 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Brendan primarily contributed to the development of a Twitter scraping tool. Their work involved scraping tweets using Selenium and the Twitter API, as well as processing and minimizing the scraped data. They refactored the scraper for performance improvements and implemented features to handle data storage and file management, including creating and managing JSON and CSV output files. Further contributions included commenting on code, adding sleep intervals to requests to avoid rate limits, and fixing a retweet check function.
grabtwitter-apitwitterpasttweets
bpb27/contact_congress
Feb 2017 - Feb 2019
Contributions:169 commits, 10 PRs, 106 pushes in 2 years
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