Bryan Head
Software Engineer at Southwest Airlines
Fort Worth, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBryan Head is a software engineer with 17 years of experience, now building cloud-native systems at Southwest Airlines after a multi-year backend role at Fidelity Investments. He specializes in Java Spring Boot backends and has hands-on experience modernizing on-prem Tomcat apps to Amazon EKS, while also contributing to Angular and JSP frontends. An active contributor to the NetLogo open-source project, he has improved core simulation logic and API features—work that reflects comfort with complex domain-specific architectures. His background in computer engineering and a capstone involving a custom microcontroller and sensor array signal a strong hardware-meets-software problem-solving mindset. Based in Fort Worth, Texas, Bryan combines enterprise-grade production experience with a curiosity for tooling and low-level systems that informed earlier internship projects like Jenkins plugin development.
17 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Grapevine High SchoolComputer Engineering, Undetermined, Computer Engineering, Undetermined at Texas A&M University
Github Skills (12)
javas10
agent-based-modeling10
api10
apidoc10
java10
scala10
architecture9
architectures9
algorithms8
data-structures8
algorithm8
data-structure8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
NetLogo/NetLogo
Feb 2013 - Sep 2020
turtles, patches, and links for kids, teachers, and scientists
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:166 commits, 67 PRs, 101 pushes in 7 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Bryan primarily worked on the back-end of the NetLogo project, specifically focusing on improving the core functionalities of the software. Their commits involved fixing bugs and adding features, such as enabling shrinking to model size on model load, adding variable name based watches, and optimizing the link manager. Furthermore, they made significant contributions to the NetLogo’s API, adding functionality like variable watchers to agents and other features. Their work indicates a focus on improving NetLogo's core logic and underlying architecture.
scientistslogoagent-based-modelingkidspatches
qiemem/eurorack
Jul 2020 - Jan 2023
Firmware customization for Mutable Instruments' Eurorack Modules.
Contributions:10 releases, 12 reviews, 163 commits in 2 years 6 months
customizationsynthesizerfirmwaredubeurorack
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