Todd Brett
Chief Operating Officer
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolTodd Brett is a Chief Operating Officer and information scientist with 20+ years of engineering and leadership experience building scalable SaaS, microservice, and cloud platforms for enterprises and startups. He has a track record of transforming organizations—founding engineering practices at Cisco that delivered over $15M in measured gains, architecting Patriot Act systems for national credit infrastructures, and helping SkyWatch secure major venture funding through a parallel data orchestration platform. A Ph.D. in Information Science and dual MS credentials underpin his hands-on strengths in Python, Java, data curation, and automated delivery, while his career spans roles from founder of a Mac-awarded product studio to senior engineering leadership at Cisco. Todd combines rigorous academic training, practicing mentorship, and a knack for turning complex, auditable requirements into pragmatic, zero-touch delivery pipelines. He is a dual U.S.-Canada citizen based in Victoria, BC, who still codes and advises clients on how to make analytics and knowledge assets genuinely actionable.
9 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Information Science, GPA: 3.87, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Information Science, GPA: 3.87 at Nova Southeastern UniversityMaster of Science (MS), Computer Information Technology, GPA: 4.00, Master of Science (MS), Computer Information Technology, GPA: 4.00 at Regis University
English, French, Welsh
Github Skills (38)
r-package10
python10
visualization9
canvas9
graphing9
javascript7
data-visualization6
genomics6
bioinformatics6
cran5
shiny5
network-visualization5
reproducible-research4
r4
visual-analytics4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
docinfosci/canvasxpress-python
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
Python Package for CanvasXpress JS Visualization Tools
Contributions:23 reviews, 592 commits, 270 PRs in 1 year 9 months
pythonvisualisationcanvaspython-packagevisualization-tools
docinfosci/canvasXpress
Jan 2017 - Dec 2021
JavaScript VisualizationTools
Contributions:2 PRs, 15 pushes, 6 branches in 4 years 11 months
canvasjavascriptword-clouddata-visualizationvisualization
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