Joe Brandt
Sr. Software Engineer at National Radio Astronomy Observatory
West Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoe Brandt is a senior software engineer with three decades of experience building systems for aerospace and radio astronomy, currently applying his expertise at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. His career spans roles at Texas Instruments and Lockheed Martin Information Technology, where he focused on embedded and systems engineering before transitioning to complex scientific software. Trained as an electrical and electronics engineer at Lawrence Technological University, he brings deep domain knowledge in hardware-software integration and mission-critical system reliability. Based in West Virginia, Joe combines hands-on development with long-term stewardship of legacy and evolving observatory codebases. Notably, his work reflects a blend of practical engineering and institutional continuity—keeping high-availability scientific instruments running while incrementally modernizing their software.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Lawrence Technological University
Github Skills (9)
the-matrix8
matrix7
high-performance5
dataflow5
cpp5
python1
data-acquisition1
pulsar1
backend1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
GreenBankObservatory/matrix
Jan 2015 - Oct 2017
The Matrix is a data flow framework in C++
Contributions:126 commits in 2 years 9 months
flow-frameworkcppthe-matrixc-plus-plusmatrix
nrao/FLAG-Beamformer-Devel
Jun 2013 - Nov 2014
Contributions:159 commits in 1 year 4 months
beamformermodified
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