John Brandt
Software Developer at Launchcode
Greater Calgary Metropolitan Area Canada
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolJohn Brandt is a software developer with eight years of hands-on experience building reliable tooling and back-end systems from Calgary. At Launchcode he focuses on pragmatic engineering and quality assurance, bringing a tester’s mindset to shipping robust features. His open-source contributions include strengthening environment-variable parsing and expanding tests for a respected Rust configuration library, showing attention to correctness and cross-language systems thinking. A former FIRST Robotics competitor, he pairs practical web and data-collection projects with strong collaboration and communication skills. Trained in computer systems technology at SAIT, he enjoys solving problems and continuously learning new languages and frameworks. Colleagues would describe him as hardworking, honest, and quietly thorough in reducing duplication and preventing bugs.
8 years of coding experience
Alberta High School Diploma, Alberta High School Diploma at Bishop Carroll High SchoolInformation Technology, Computer Technology/Computer Systems Technology, Information Technology, Computer Technology/Computer Systems Technology at Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT)
Github Skills (7)
configuration-management10
configurations10
rust10
configuration-file10
testing10
toml9
json7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
rust-cli/config-rs
May 2020 - May 2021
⚙️ Layered configuration system for Rust applications (with strong support for 12-factor applications).
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:7 commits, 5 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:John primarily focused on improving the environment variable parsing capabilities of the configuration library. Their contributions included implementing more robust parsing for boolean, integer, and floating-point values from environment variables, along with reducing code duplication. They also added extensive testing to validate the correct parsing behavior of different data types.
configurationrustconfiguration-managementtomlfactor
johnb8/dotfiles
Aug 2020 - Mar 2025
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
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