Brent Halonen
VP Of Engineering at Steelhead Technologies
Hancock, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrent Halonen is a VP of Engineering with eight years of hands-on experience applying mathematics and scientific rigor to deliver robust, technically challenging software systems. He has led cross-disciplinary teams from prototype to production at Steelhead Technologies and REL, combining modeling, computer vision, and sensor simulation expertise with pragmatic engineering decisions. His background includes developing Julia and C++ modeling stacks for DoD-grade thermal, atmospheric, and ray-trace sensor models, and inventing cost-effective control solutions for industrial hardware. A mathematician by training, he pairs rigorous analysis with practical product instincts—often finding simple, unconventional fixes (like replacing costly controllers with consumer hardware) that unlock R&D goals. Based in Hancock, Michigan, he actively works with stats, modeling, and imaging code and brings an unusual blend of academic depth and applied systems delivery to complex engineering problems.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Mathematics, Master's degree, Mathematics at Michigan Technological UniversityBrighton High School
Github Skills (135)
science10
julia10
programming-language9
mysql-database9
javafx9
machine-learning9
hpc9
pymysql9
text-search9
data-storage8
sql8
julialang8
simulations8
desktop-application8
perfect8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
laurium-labs/MessengerAnalyze.jl
Jul 2017 - May 2019
Analyzes Facebook messenger conversation between two people.
Contributions:30 commits, 2 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 year 11 months
conversationfacebookanalyzesmessengerinstagram
laurium-labs/SaunaModel.jl
Mar 2019 - Jun 2019
Warming up with units and differential equations.
Contributions:38 commits, 10 PRs, 31 pushes in 2 months
equationsdifferentialdifferential-equationsunits
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