Brendan Russell
Founder & Solo Developer at Banal Development
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrendan Russell is a multidisciplinary founder and solo developer with nine years of experience building ambitious interactive systems that blend software engineering, game design, and narrative theory. Based in Greater Boston, he independently created a deeply integrated sci-fi game project—handling everything from worldbuilding and multi-novel narrative scripting to Unreal Engine 5 systems, Metahuman cinematics, procedural city tools, and motion-capture integration. His background in embedded and real-time systems at Geisel Software means he pairs creative vision with low-level engineering rigor, having shipped kernel drivers, RTOS scheduling, and safety-critical firmware for medical and robotics clients. Brendan excels where autonomy and systems thinking matter, designing symbolic languages and production infrastructure that align aesthetics, mechanics, and player psychology. He is equally comfortable directing art and audio as he is managing Git/Perforce pipelines, cloud backups, and investor-readiness planning, making him a rare hybrid of storyteller, technologist, and producer.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Quinsigamond Community CollegeWest Boylston Junior/Senior High School
Github Skills (20)
flying8
robot6
ignition6
gazebosim6
robotics5
mavlink4
localization4
simultaneous4
autopilot3
sympy2
python2
java1
servlet1
tone-mapping1
commons1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
TheRussellMuscle/GreenhouseMothership
Feb 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:18 commits, 2 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 month
brainpythonsystem-automationautomationgreenhouse
TheRussellMuscle/ARMOR
Oct 2016 - Feb 2018
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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