Brian Olive
Senior Software Engineer at ARA
Orlando, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Olive is a Senior Software Engineer and Group Leader at Applied Research Associates with a decade of experience building modeling & simulation, GIS, and web application solutions for space and geospatial intelligence. He combines hands-on engineering with personnel and project management, guiding a team that translates advanced research—especially in AI and quantum computing—into operational capabilities. Based in Orlando, he rose through successive technical roles at ARA from intern to senior staff while completing an MS in Computer Science at UCF. His background as a high school Spanish teacher informs a collaborative, clear-communication leadership style that helps bridge technical and non-technical stakeholders. He excels at marrying research-driven innovation with practical delivery for government and defense customers. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architecture choices that keep complex science projects on schedule and mission-focused.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at University of Central Florida
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (17)
algolia10
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utterances10
github-pages10
jekyll10
algolia-search10
jekyll-theme10
triangular10
lua9
floating-point6
docker-container6
dockerfile6
docker6
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
brianolive/brianolive.github.io
Sep 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:74 pushes, 1 branch in 24 days
brianolive/Pinchfinite.codea
Apr 2019 - Sep 2019
Contributions:14 commits, 1 branch in 4 months
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