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Brandon Galloway

Continuous Integration Championic

Academic Background

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Master's Degree in Computer ScienceMay 2025
Concentrations
Data Science
Honors
4.0 GPA

Associations

Tau Beta Pi

Engineering Honor Society focused on academic scholarship and positive community impact. (Illinois Alpha Chapter)

Pyhealth

Community driven open-source library for data science in healthcare.

Bradley University

Bradley University

Bachelor's Degree in Computer ScienceMay 2020

Minor in Mathematics

Concentrations
Data Science
Cyber Security
Honors
Cum Laude

Associations

Bradley Universitiy Honors Society

Honors program encompassing advanced coursework, seminars, and projects in addition to degree-path study.

We Hear You

Startup company focused on building affordable hardware to enable people of all abilities

Bradley University Data Science Club

Professional Highlights

Key roles, ownership, and impact

  1. Present

    Senior Software Engineer at Liberty Mutual Insurance

    US Personal Lines - Underwriting, Rating, Machine Learning, and Vendor-driven data workflows.

    Bloomington, IL
    Java
    AWS
    Datadog
    Splunk
    S3
    • Launched a severless vendor data ingestion suite processing millions of records daily.
    • Unlocked million dollar impact underwriting insites through data engineering and vendor data pipelines.
    • Designed and operated geospatial systems serving the US Personal Lines market.
    • Launched a new motor vehicle record data ingestion platform serving all 50 states.
    • Supported small commercial, geospatial, vehicle, driver, home, and renters data systems.
    • Improved service reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency through autoscaling, performance tuning, and production observability using Datadog and Splunk.
    • Mentored and onboard interns and junior engineers through code reviews, pairing, and architectural guidance.
  2. May 2019
    April 2023

    Full Stack Software Engineer at COUNTRY Financial

    Agency and Marketing - Delivering lead management, marketing, and CRM systems.

    Bloomington, IL
    Java
    Spring Boot
    JavaScript
    Angular
    Azure
    Redis
    CI/CD
    TDD
    VMware Tanzu
    Twilio
    Meta Leadgen
    • Delivered agency policy administration and lead management systems used by thousands of agents nationwide.
    • Enabled event-driven marketing automation through meta and google lead generation integrations.
    • Automated lead distribution and agent notification workflows, improving lead response times and conversion rates.
    • Engineered a multi-year modernization effort migrating legacy IBM-based systems to cloud microservices.
    • Launched a real-time SMS notification service using Twilio to alert agents of high-priority leads.
    • Designed a blue/green deployment solution on Azure, earning the 'Most Production Ready' hackathon award.

Projects

A few things I’ve built end-to-end

Skills

Currently Tinkering With

Networking
Microcontrollers
CUDA
gRPC
Zigbee
Edge Compute
Computer Vision
Causal Inference

My Toolkit

Deep Learning
Kubernetes
Next.js
AWS AppSync (Graphql)
High-Availability Design
GitOps
EventBridge
Firewall Rule Design

Daily Drivers

AWS
Serverless Compute
Typescript
ACORD
Agile
Apigee
Microservices
Java/Spring
Snowflake
Data Transformation
GitHub Actions
DataDog
Splunk

Contact

For discussions around roles, collaborations, or my current projects, LinkedIn is the best way to reach me.

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