Brenden Bernal
Sotware Engineer at Leidos
Greater Tucson Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrenden Bernal is a software engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building web, mobile, and backend systems, currently maintaining and evolving Tearline.mil with a Wagtail/Django headless CMS, React/Next.js frontend, and AWS deployments. He has practical experience in low-level scientific programming from his time at the USGS, where he improved C-based modeling accuracy, optimized memory usage, and added robust unit tests. Brenden combines full-stack delivery—APIs, mobile app builds for iOS/Android, and forum integrations—with direct stakeholder communication to meet government requirements. He also has a history of pragmatic tooling work, having built an in-house Python/SQL payroll system that automated operations for a local business. Based in the Greater Tucson area, he brings a disciplined, detail-oriented approach and a willingness to inherit and modernize legacy systems into production-grade, maintainable platforms.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Northern Arizona University
Github Skills (9)
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hydrology9
r-package9
ocean9
simulation8
python7
r6
ecosystem6
soil5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
BrendenBe1/Payroll
Jun 2016 - Apr 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 153 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 10 months
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BrendenBe1/Ecolocation-Website
Sep 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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