Brandon Galloway

Continuous Integration Championic

Academic Background

Professional Highlights

Key roles, ownership, and impact

  1. Apr 2023 — Present

    Senior Software Engineer

    Apr 2023 — PresentBloomington, IL

    Liberty Mutual Insurance

    Bloomington, IL

    US Retail Markets: data services supporting auto and home quoting, underwriting, and policy writing.

    Ownership

    End-to-end stewardship of US Retail Markets data services across vehicle, driver, loss-history, geospatial, credit, and adjacent data domains, powering Liberty Mutual’s quoting, underwriting, and analytics workflows.

    Technical ownership of project execution from Agile discovery through delivery, translating epics to actionable engineering work, developing team members, and representing products as the technical voice in vendor and stakeholder discussions.

    Accountability for the long-term technical health of established services, including modernization planning, dependency currency, delivery pipelines, automated testing, and production support.

    Impact

    Delivered data services processing millions of records daily, underpinning the successful launch of several rating programs, surfacing underwriting insights with eight-figure value, and supporting nationwide quoting and underwriting traffic for a Fortune 100 insurer.

    Technical leader bridging engineering execution with high-visibility stakeholder influence by leading department representation in quarterly shareouts, spearheading recurring stakeholder demonstrations, carrying feedback into the Agile runway, and advancing department-wide engineering practices, norms, and standards.

    Ownership

    End-to-end stewardship of US Retail Markets data services across vehicle, driver, loss-history, geospatial, credit, and adjacent data domains, powering Liberty Mutual’s quoting, underwriting, and analytics workflows.

    Technical ownership of project execution from Agile discovery through delivery, translating epics to actionable engineering work, developing team members, and representing products as the technical voice in vendor and stakeholder discussions.

    Accountability for the long-term technical health of established services, including modernization planning, dependency currency, delivery pipelines, automated testing, and production support.

    Impact

    Delivered data services processing millions of records daily, underpinning the successful launch of several rating programs, surfacing underwriting insights with eight-figure value, and supporting nationwide quoting and underwriting traffic for a Fortune 100 insurer.

    Technical leader bridging engineering execution with high-visibility stakeholder influence by leading department representation in quarterly shareouts, spearheading recurring stakeholder demonstrations, carrying feedback into the Agile runway, and advancing department-wide engineering practices, norms, and standards.

    Technologies
    • Node.js
    • TypeScript
    • Java
    • Spring Boot
    • AWS CDK
    • GitHub Actions
    • AWS Lambda
    • Amazon API Gateway
    • AWS AppSync
    • Apigee
    • OAuth 2.0
    • Microsoft Entra ID
    • Amazon DynamoDB
    • Amazon EventBridge
    • Amazon S3
    • Snowflake
    • Amazon CloudWatch
    • Datadog
    • Splunk
    • GitHub Copilot
    • Internal LLMs

    Technologies

    • Node.js
    • TypeScript
    • Java
    • Spring Boot
    • AWS CDK
    • GitHub Actions
    • AWS Lambda
    • Amazon API Gateway
    • AWS AppSync
    • Apigee
    • OAuth 2.0
    • Microsoft Entra ID
    • Amazon DynamoDB
    • Amazon EventBridge
    • Amazon S3
    • Snowflake
    • Amazon CloudWatch
    • Datadog
    • Splunk
    • GitHub Copilot
    • Internal LLMs
  2. May 2019 — Apr 2023

    Full Stack Software Engineer

    May 2019 — Apr 2023Bloomington, IL

    COUNTRY Financial

    Bloomington, IL

    Agency and Marketing: lead management, marketing, and CRM systems.

    Ownership

    Feature-to-production ownership across COUNTRY’s lead-generation ecosystem and policy administration platforms, delivering full services through implementation, testing, production release, and operational support.

    Modernization responsibility spanning the transition from legacy IBM WebSphere applications to Spring Boot microservices and Azure Spring Apps, including the implementation of complete replacement services and contributions to evolving architectural patterns.

    Product engineering across the flow from digital lead capture to agent action, encompassing advertising platforms, Navigator, SMS notifications, telephony, and policy systems.

    Impact

    Delivered lead-generation and notification capabilities responsible for a major share of digital lead volume, improving response times and conversion across an agency network of roughly 2,000 representatives in 19 states.

    Avoided six figures in licensing costs by modernizing a portfolio of legacy services, while improving deployment speed, reliability, scalability, observability, and cloud readiness.

    Validated Azure Spring Apps as a modernization path through a production-ready blue/green deployment model, building organizational confidence in safer cloud releases and the broader platform direction.

    Ownership

    Feature-to-production ownership across COUNTRY’s lead-generation ecosystem and policy administration platforms, delivering full services through implementation, testing, production release, and operational support.

    Modernization responsibility spanning the transition from legacy IBM WebSphere applications to Spring Boot microservices and Azure Spring Apps, including the implementation of complete replacement services and contributions to evolving architectural patterns.

    Product engineering across the flow from digital lead capture to agent action, encompassing advertising platforms, Navigator, SMS notifications, telephony, and policy systems.

    Impact

    Delivered lead-generation and notification capabilities responsible for a major share of digital lead volume, improving response times and conversion across an agency network of roughly 2,000 representatives in 19 states.

    Avoided six figures in licensing costs by modernizing a portfolio of legacy services, while improving deployment speed, reliability, scalability, observability, and cloud readiness.

    Validated Azure Spring Apps as a modernization path through a production-ready blue/green deployment model, building organizational confidence in safer cloud releases and the broader platform direction.

    Technologies
    • Java
    • Spring Boot
    • JavaScript
    • Angular
    • Chromium
    • Azure Spring Apps
    • Microsoft Azure
    • VMware Tanzu
    • IBM WebSphere
    • RabbitMQ
    • Redis
    • Jenkins
    • GitLab
    • Twilio
    • Meta Leadgen

    Technologies

    • Java
    • Spring Boot
    • JavaScript
    • Angular
    • Chromium
    • Azure Spring Apps
    • Microsoft Azure
    • VMware Tanzu
    • IBM WebSphere
    • RabbitMQ
    • Redis
    • Jenkins
    • GitLab
    • Twilio
    • Meta Leadgen

Projects

A few things I’ve built end-to-end

Ragnarok Compute Cluster

Ragnarok Compute Cluster

ARM Blade Kubernetes Cluster.

Kubernetes
NAT
Network Security
Linux Administration
+3
Flora

Flora

IoT plant monitoring.

AWS IoT
Microcontroller Programming
Certificate Management
GraphQL
+3
LLM Medical Reasoning Research

LLM Medical Reasoning Research

Analysis of deep medical reasoning.

Supercomputer Research
LLM Reasoning
Agentic Systems
Serverless Compute
+1
NFC Smart Record Wall

NFC Smart Record Wall

Automated home audio playback of wall-mounted records.

NFC
NFS
HomeAssistant
Kubernetes
+1
Personal Compute Cluster

Personal Compute Cluster

TuringPi Cluster board hosting a bare-metal cm4/RK1 compute cluster.

TuringPi
Kubernetes
RaspberryPi
Turing RK1
Network Attached Storage Server

Network Attached Storage Server

Home built ZFS NAS hosting 48TB of redundant data storage.

ZFS
Metadata Management
B2/S3
Optane
+3
Pathfinding IoT Car

Pathfinding IoT Car

Autonomous vehicle with computer vision and AI-powered navigation.

AWS Greengrass
Lambda
Microelectronics
Computer Vision
+1
Debiasing Deep Chest X-Ray Classifiers

Debiasing Deep Chest X-Ray Classifiers

Research into advanced AI debiasing strategies.

Deep Learning
Pytorch
CUDA
Fairness in AI
+4

Publications

Smart Learning Analytics: Student Academic Performance Data Representation, Processing and Prediction

Smart Education and e-Learning

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Uskov, V. L., Bakken, J., Gayke, K., Fatima, J., Galloway, B., Ganapathi, K. S., Jose, D.

  • Smart Learning Analytics
  • Student Performance Prediction
  • Comparative Predictive Modeling
  • Supervised Learning Paradigms
  • Data Representation Methodologies
  • Multi-Criteria Model Evaluation

Contact

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

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