Taylor Braun-jones
Principal Software Engineer at Spryte Medical
Brookline, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolTaylor Braun-jones is a Principal Software Engineer with 14+ years delivering robust C++ and Linux-first systems across medical imaging, embedded video analytics, and real-time radar platforms. He combines deep expertise in Linux administration, kernel customization, and advanced networking with disciplined software engineering practices—code review, unit testing, CI, and strong documentation. Taylor has driven production-grade imaging and visualization work at GE Healthcare and contributed test automation and QA improvements to prominent open-source projects like CMake and ITK. Comfortable across low-level systems, CUDA, Qt/MITK/VTK stacks and Python scripting, he excels at bridging research algorithms into reliable products and packaging dependencies for reproducible builds. Known for pragmatic collaboration with upstream open-source communities, he often surfaces subtle platform and compiler interoperability fixes that improve long-term maintainability. Based in Brookline, MA, he blends systems-level craft with a track record of shipping mission-critical software in regulated and embedded environments.
14 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
French, Spanish
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Github Skills (27)
image-analysis10
cpp-library10
c-language10
image-processing10
testing10
cmake10
visual-studio10
medical-image-computing10
itk10
medical-imaging10
vtk10
cpp10
cprogramming-language10
qt9
debug9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
InsightSoftwareConsortium/ITK
Aug 2013 - Jan 2020
Insight Toolkit (ITK) -- Official Repository. ITK builds on a proven, spatially-oriented architecture for processing, segmentation, and registration of scientific images in two, three, or more dimensions.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 7 comments in 6 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Taylor primarily contributes to the Insight Toolkit (ITK) by fixing bugs, improving code, and making enhancements. They removed unused code, exposed the output stream operator, and fixed issues related to internal information propagation in an image filter. Additionally, they addressed compiler warnings and handled single-component TIFF images, improving the software's overall stability, functionality, and compatibility. The contributions show proficiency in C++ and image processing concepts.
pythonitkcomputer-visionopen-sciencescientific
MITK/MITK
Jul 2013 - Jun 2016
The Medical Imaging Interaction Toolkit.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:63 commits, 4 PRs, 2 comments in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Taylor primarily worked on improving the MITK toolkit's core functionalities. They modified existing code to correct errors, initialize variables, and add support for new features. Their contributions included refactoring code related to image processing and rendering, specifically addressing issues in data management, rendering, and IGT modules. Additionally, the user enhanced the serial communication capabilities within the IGT tracking devices module.
dicom-browserinteractionmitkitkdicom
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