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Brandon F. - Remote full-stack developer

Brandon F.

Timezone: Eastern Time (US & Canada) (UTC-5)

Summary

I’ve been a programmer for about 8 years and worked as a software engineer in the distributed security patching space for Amazon Web Services for about two years. My specialty is full-stack engineering but I also have working knowledge of building machine learning systems.

Work Experience

Software Engineer II
Amazon Web Services | Sep 2019 - May 2021
Python
Java
Ruby on Rails
React
Go
Worked on a team that disseminated security and kernel patches to Amazon's internal hosts
Research Assistant
Northwestern University | Dec 2018 - Sep 2019
Pandas
Python 3
Julia
Worked to develop a model to differentiate between control and patients with Parkinson's disease through speech error production

Projects

Predicting Diabetic Early Readmission
Pandas
Python 3
Developed a binary classification model to predict whether or not a diabetic patient will readmit into the hospital within 30 days
OpenAI Autonomous Driving Agent
Python 3
TensorFlow
Implemented and trained a reinforcement learning agent (deep Q-network) to learn how to navigate a virtual car along a race track.