Brett Graham
Senior Software Engineer at Draft Product Development
Waltham, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolBrett Graham is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years of multidisciplinary experience building scientific instrumentation, automation, and analysis software for neuroscience and imaging at institutions including Space Telescope Science Institute and Harvard. He combines deep software skills (Python, Bash, systems integration) with hands-on hardware, electronics, and mechanical design to deliver end-to-end solutions—from PCB and embedded microcontroller development to distributed data acquisition pipelines handling multi-terabyte and petabyte-scale datasets. His work has enabled large-scale projects such as automated electron-microscopy pipelines and long-term animal and insect behavioral monitoring, demonstrating both scientific rigor and production-grade engineering. As a consultant he translates research needs into commercial or custom systems, often leading design, testing, and deployment across labs. Notably, he has orchestrated complex distributed systems coordinating dozens of Python processes across multiple machines for high-throughput image acquisition, revealing a knack for reliable orchestration under demanding data rates. Based in Waltham, MA, he brings a rare blend of PhD-level neuroscience insight and practical engineering that shortens the path from experimental idea to reproducible, scalable instrumentation.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Neuroscience, PhD, Neuroscience at University of DelawareMA, Psychology, MA, Psychology at Millersville University of Pennsylvania
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Github contributions (5)
asdf-format/asdf-fits-schemas
Oct 2022 - Mar 2024
The ASDF schemas to support the FITS format
Contributions:8 reviews, 11 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year 5 months
asdffitsschemas
braingram/stcal
Mar 2023 - Feb 2025
Contributions:86 pushes, 42 branches, 3 tags in 1 year 11 months
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