brandon purvis

senior associate

About

Brandon is a self-motivated and adaptable, computer scientist and programmer. He enjoys creating new features and values the correctness and readability of the code he creates. Brandon excels when working as a part of a team, collaborating and going the extra mile to ensure the success of the groups project. He's able to quickly and effectively pick-up new skills and technologies having been exposed to a variety of languages, both front-end and back-end frameworks, and problem domains.

Country

united states

City

herndon

Industry

Skill

python, java, programming, game design, data visualization, javascript, software development, web applications, mentoring, algorithms, computer science, c++, html, linux, c, human computer interaction, git, django

Experience

senior associate

python developer

booz allen hamilton

2017-11 - 2018-10 · 1 yr

python developer

capital one

2018-10 - Present · 8 yrs

developer intern

center for open science

2015-5 - 2016-5 · 1 yr 1 mo

Performed python and javascript programming for the Open Science Framework, an open source web app and research workflow tool that facilitates researches adoption of open science values and practices. Leveraged feature weighting in elasticsearch to improve relevance of search results and developed a prototype implementation of indexing uploaded text documents to improve project searchability.

counselor

leadership, education and development (lead)

2014-6 - 2014-6 · 1 mo

* Counselor at the Google LEAD : Computer Science summer institute at the University of Virginia. > * Responsible for groups rising 9th and 10th graders. > * Assisted Instructors in teaching the students python programming and various topics in computer science such as fractals. > * Provided programming assistance to students implementing games using python and pygame.