Dan Brennan
Software Architect at J. Paul Getty Trust
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Brennan is a software architect with nine years of focused experience building digital applications for museums, archives, and cultural heritage institutions. He designs systems that connect people to collections, leveraging linked data, search, and IIIF to create researcher- and enthusiast-friendly interfaces. Currently at the J. Paul Getty Trust after roles at Princeton and The Met, he blends deep domain knowledge of collections and metadata with practical engineering to solve access and discovery challenges. His background in archives and museum professions gives him a user-centered perspective uncommon among architects, helping translate curatorial needs into scalable technical solutions. Based in Los Angeles, he is continually exploring novel combinations of linked data and UI design to surface richer, more contextualized collection experiences.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
M.A., Museum Professions, M.A., Museum Professions at Seton Hall UniversityB.A., History, Political Science, B.A., History, Political Science at Rutgers University
Github Skills (14)
linked-open-data9
api8
npm-package8
rad8
javascript6
viewer6
ontologies6
linked-data5
js5
atlas5
rdf4
specification4
iiif3
edtech2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Princeton-University-Art-Museum/puam-api-docs
Nov 2017 - Mar 2019
Documentation for the Princeton University Art Museum API
Contributions:5 PRs, 6 pushes in 1 year 3 months
apiprincetonartmuseum
danieltbrennan/iiif-canvas-panel
Feb 2024 - Mar 2025
Investigation into component granularity
Contributions:5 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 1 month
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