Brendan Odonnell
System Engineer at Carrier HVAC
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrendan Odonnell is a systems engineer with 13 years of hands-on experience applying data-driven analysis, requirements engineering, and system simulation to complex HVAC and aerospace problems. He combines practical lab and fabrication skills—from Instron testing and CAD-driven prototyping to thermal and flow measurement—with a systems-level view honed through roles at Carrier and United Technologies. Brendan contributes to open-source Python tooling, notably improving robustness and Unicode support in the mailgun/flanker email parsing library, showing attention to maintainability and real-world edge cases. With academic grounding in aerospace systems and graduate work in electrical and electronics engineering, he bridges mechanical, electrical, and software domains to deliver measurable process and test improvements.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, aerospace systems engineering, Bachelor's degree, aerospace systems engineering at The University of AkronMaster's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Arkansas
Github Skills (7)
email-parsing10
python10
unicode10
code-library9
lib9
testing8
idn8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mailgun/flanker
Mar 2017 - May 2018
Python email address and Mime parsing library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:70 commits, 39 PRs, 121 pushes in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Brendan primarily contributed to the `flanker` repository, a Python email parsing library. Their work included enhancing the library's functionality by adding support for Unicode strings in email addresses and addressing circular import issues. Additionally, the user made updates to the version of the library and refined the internal structure of the code by making certain attributes private. These changes demonstrate a focus on improving the library's robustness and maintainability.
e-mailmimeparsingpython
genomoncology/hgvs
Jun 2023 - Jun 2026
Python library to parse, format, validate, normalize, and map sequence variants. `pip install hgvs`
Contributions:98 pushes, 13 branches in 3 years 1 month
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