Brenton House
Principal Advisor, Automation, AI And Emerging Technology
Grapevine, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrenton House is a Principal Advisor at IBM who helps executives and technical teams make practical, governance-first decisions about AI, automation, APIs, and integration, drawing on 30+ years of hands-on software and architecture experience. He translates fast-moving capabilities into actionable guidance that balances developer credibility with executive clarity, focusing on business value rather than hype. A former VP of Digital Evangelism at Software AG and director-level API evangelist, he has built large developer audiences through demos, videos, and keynotes while shaping GTM and product narratives. His engineering roots include mobile and API work (notably contributions to the Titanium SDK and Alloy MVC framework) and long experience building deployable, secure enterprise systems across industries from media to logistics. Based in Grapevine, Texas, he blends technical storytelling, hands-on experimentation with agentic AI patterns, and field-informed positioning to help organizations evaluate and operationalize emerging tech.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Engineering (BSE), Engineering, Bachelor of Science in Engineering (BSE), Engineering at University of MichiganComputer Science, Computer Science at Harvard Extension School
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Github Skills (16)
alloy10
xml10
javascript10
mobile-development10
titanium-alloy10
android10
titanium10
front-end-development9
cross-platform9
back-end-development8
npm-package7
aspnet-web-api6
appium6
ios6
appcelerator6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
tidev/alloy
Nov 2014 - Apr 2020
Alloy is an MVC framework for the Appcelerator Titanium SDK
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 16 PRs, 53 comments in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Brenton primarily contributed to the Alloy MVC framework, focusing on improvements and bug fixes. They added support for new features like `baseController` attributes in XML tags and platform-specific namespaces. The commits also included refactoring and improvements to the compiler, including allowing returns outside functions, and addressed issues related to widget usage within XML views. Finally, the user introduced a test application to validate the framework's functionality.
npm-packagetitaniumandroidsdkalloy
tidev/titanium-sdk
Jul 2013 - Aug 2020
🚀 Native iOS and Android Apps with JavaScript & TypeScript
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 12 comments in 7 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Brenton primarily focused on bug fixes related to mobile web compatibility within the Titanium SDK for Android development. They addressed issues like reading file contents in IE for mobileweb and corrected mime type handling for JSON files, impacting the application's functionality on mobile platforms. Furthermore, the user merged remote-tracking branches, keeping the Android build environment up-to-date. These changes are consistent with supporting and enhancing core Android build processes.
nativeandroid-appsmobile-developmentreact-nativejavascript
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