Brian Larsen
Digital Forensics Developer at Apex Systems
Houston, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Larsen is a Digital Forensics Developer with 7+ years of software engineering experience and two decades of hands-on digital forensics and eDiscovery expertise. He builds and scales cloud-native, automation-driven tools—working in C#, Python, PowerShell, Dask, Prefect, and Kubernetes—to process and analyze large, messy datasets including petabyte-scale geospatial and forensic data. Comfortable across DevOps, vSphere/Azure management, and forensic platforms like Magnet Axiom and Nuix, he blends deep technical forensics knowledge with pragmatic data engineering to produce auditable, court-ready results. Brian has founded and led forensic firms, testified as an expert, and repeatedly turned investigative requirements into repeatable, automated pipelines. Known for empathetic collaboration and continuous learning, he also favors practical open-source toolchains and notebook-driven user experiences to make complex analyses accessible to non-technical stakeholders. Based in Houston, he brings rare domain depth—combining litigation-ready forensics with modern distributed data engineering.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Relevant courses: Data Structures and Algorithm Analysis, Calculus III, Linear Algebra
Dean’s List, Spring 2002, Relevant courses: Data Structures and Algorithm Analysis, Calculus III, Linear Algebra
Dean’s List, Spring 2002 at University of HoustonAssociate of Science - AS, Associate of Science - AS at Houston City College
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Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
conda-forge/validators-feedstock
Nov 2019 - Feb 2023
A conda-smithy repository for validators.
Contributions:1 review, 7 PRs, 7 pushes in 3 years 3 months
conda
brl0/primesieve-python
Nov 2019 - Dec 2022
Fast prime number generator. Python bindings around C++ library primesieve
Contributions:2 releases, 7 PRs, 144 pushes in 3 years 1 month
generator-pythonpythoncppprimesievec-library
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