Brian Granger
Senior Principal Technologist at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Granger is a Senior Principal Technologist at AWS and co-creator of Project Jupyter and the Altair statistical visualization library, bringing a rare blend of academic rigor and production-scale product leadership. With a Ph.D. in Physics and over 8 years in industry roles (and a longer academic career as a professor currently on leave), he translates complex data-science workflows into developer-friendly open-source tools and cloud services. An outspoken advocate for open science, open data, and open-source software, he shapes ecosystems that make reproducible research practical at scale. Based in Scottsdale, Arizona, he pairs deep research experience from Harvard and Cal Poly with hands-on program and technical leadership at AWS, and his work quietly underpins many data-driven notebooks and visualizations used across research and industry.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Engineering Physics, Bachelor's degree, Engineering Physics at Westmont CollegeDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics at University of Colorado at Boulder
Github Skills (34)
world-of-warcraft10
controlling10
azerothcore10
modular9
multiplayer9
mmo9
linux9
server9
speedometer9
trinitycore9
elevation8
prototyping8
typescript8
octoprint8
microsoft7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
zranger1/PixelTeleporter
Sep 2020 - Jun 2022
Virtual LED prototyping tools
Contributions:6 releases, 26 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 9 months
led3d-printeroctoprintprototyping
zranger1/hubitatpixelblazedriver
Aug 2019 - Jan 2022
Hubitat elevation device handler for the Pixelblaze addressable LED controller
Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 24 pushes in 2 years 6 months
addressablecontrollerspeedometertilesetelevation
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