Jeremy Branham
Chief Savant at Savantly
Fort Worth, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeremy Branham is a seasoned technology architect and software engineer based in Fort Worth, Texas, and founder of Savantly LLC, bringing over 18 years of hands-on experience designing cloud-native, big data, and enterprise systems. As Chief Savant he delivers customized software across domains from government contracts and telecom to NFTs and restaurant franchising, combining platform architecture with practical delivery. He has deep Java and backend expertise—contributing to notable open-source projects like Gentics Mesh (test infrastructure robustness) and Apache Causeway (core and JDO integration improvements). Jeremy’s background includes stabilizing and scaling search and streaming pipelines (Solr upgrades, Kafka + Spring) and building observability stacks with Grafana/Graphite, reflecting strong reliability and performance engineering skills. A long-time mentor and DevOps practitioner, he blends development, CI/CD, and on-call reliability responsibilities to shepherd systems from prototype to production. Colloquially a “major geek,” he pairs curiosity-driven tinkering with disciplined architecture and operational rigor.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
N/A, Physiology/Anatomy, N/A, Physiology/Anatomy at Tarrant County CollegeN/A, Business Administration/ IT emphasis, N/A, Business Administration/ IT emphasis at American InterContinental UniversityCertificate, Project Management Professional, Certificate, Project Management Professional at Dallas Northlake CollegeCET, Computer/Software Engineering, CET, Computer/Software Engineering at DeVry University
English
Github Skills (18)
testing10
java10
javas10
junit10
amazon-elasticsearch9
java-persistence-api9
aws-elasticsearch9
elasticsearchquery9
elasticsearch-api9
jpa9
ddd9
elasticsearch9
api8
spring-boot8
cms7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
apache/causeway
Dec 2014 - Jul 2020
Use Apache Causeway™ to rapidly develop domain-driven apps or modular monoliths in Java, on top of the Spring Boot platform. Write your business logic in entities, domain services or view models, and the framework dynamically generates a representation of that domain model as a webapp, GraphQL or RESTful API. For prototyping or production.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:31 commits, 5 PRs, 1 comment in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Jeremy primarily contributed to the Apache Causeway framework's core components, focusing on internal functionalities. Their work involved correcting spelling errors and addressing whitespace issues within Java source files, improving code quality. They also made significant changes to the JDO (Java Data Objects) integration, including refactoring and adding overrides. In addition, the user worked on data schema creation and made grammar corrections.
developingdomain-modelprototypingdomain-drivenlogic
gentics/mesh
Jul 2019 - Jul 2019
Gentics Mesh - The open source headless CMS for developers
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 12 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Jeremy's contributions primarily focused on improving test infrastructure and ensuring compatibility for the Gentics Mesh project. They implemented JUnit rules for setting environment variables, which improved the test environment. The user also addressed OS-specific path issues, and corrected some errors related to the test environment, thereby increasing the robustness of the testing framework.
cmsmeshgentics-meshgraphql-apiapi-first
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