Brenton Mcmenamin
Backend Engineer at Blue Rose Research
Town of Stamford, New York, United States
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Top SchoolBrenton Mcmenamin is a backend engineer with 10 years of experience building data platforms and production ML systems for companies ranging from startups to Spotify. He has led design and implementation of BigQuery/dbt warehouses, built persistence layers in Kotlin/Postgres for multimedia and AI-powered applications, and saved Spotify millions by re-architecting data pipelines. His background in cognitive neuroscience and a PhD in cognitive science underpin a strong statistical and signal-processing toolkit that he applies to data engineering and model production. At Catalist and Enigma he shipped robust ETL and ML pipelines for high-stakes use cases like election and financial compliance data. Now at Blue Rose Research after a staff-engineer stint at Hume AI, he blends research rigor with pragmatic engineering to move prototypes into scalable services. Outside work he experiments with data-science side projects on GitHub, reflecting a continued curiosity for applied analytics.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelorâs Degree Mathematics; Psychology, Bachelorâs Degree Mathematics; Psychology at University of Wisconsin-MadisonDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Psychology; Cognitive Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Psychology; Cognitive Science at University of Minnesota
English
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Github Skills (13)
census-data7
autoencoder7
playing6
scipy6
defaultdict6
pca6
python6
numpy6
grid-search6
visualization4
grid3
tensorflow2
deep-learning1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
bmcmenamin/tourguide
May 2019 - Jul 2025
combine wikipedia geo-search and graph traversals to find interesting things near you
Contributions:12 PRs, 48 pushes, 16 branches in 6 years 3 months
geointerestingcombinewikipediagraph
bmcmenamin/sundries
Nov 2017 - Apr 2026
Little things I want to keep but not give their own repo
Contributions:21 PRs, 67 pushes, 23 branches in 8 years 6 months
pythonkeeptensorflow-experimentspedalsheildcensus-data
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