Weston Catron
Principal Software Engineer at Onebrief
Charleston, South Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWeston Catron is a Principal Software Engineer and seasoned technology leader with 11 years of experience building products from embedded firmware to enterprise-scale web platforms. Raised by computer science professors, he blends artistic curiosity with engineering rigor—early work includes iPhone apps, websites, and founding multiple startups. He’s taken hardware-software systems from prototype to production at Heatworks, led backend and architecture for Somo’s U.S. expansion, and most recently served as Senior Director of Technology at CI&T before joining Onebrief to enable advanced collaboration for military planning. An active contributor to open-source (notably work improving MQTT.js protocol handling and TypeScript defs), he focuses on scalable, customer-first solutions and building strong remote engineering cultures. Practical, hands-on across the stack, Weston pairs product intuition with a knack for turning complex systems into reliable, deployable services.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Drop-Out Computer Science, Drop-Out Computer Science at Furman University
Github Skills (8)
mqtt10
javascript10
nodejs10
mqttnet10
typescripts8
typescript8
typescript-types8
testing7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
mqttjs/MQTT.js
Dec 2016 - Jun 2018
The MQTT client for Node.js and the browser
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 5 comments in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Weston primarily focused on improving the MQTT client's protocol handling and server configuration. Their work involved modifying the `lib/connect/index.js` file to address protocol selection and the use of server-provided protocols. They also added a TypeScript definition for the server protocol and modified unit tests for more flexible server connections. These changes suggest a focus on improving the library's flexibility and robustness in connecting to MQTT brokers.
browsernode-jsjavascriptmqttnodejs-library
SPARQL-Environment/SPARQL-Environment
Jul 2014 - Jul 2017
Contributions:203 commits, 2 PRs, 49 pushes in 3 years
queryboxintegratedjavascriptsparql
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