Brandon Barker
Scala Developer at Caesars Digital
City of Ithaca, New York, United States
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Top SchoolBrandon Barker is a Scala developer with 12 years of experience building high-performance systems that transform complex scientific and biological data into reliable, scalable services. Currently at Caesars Digital, he applies expertise in HPC, computational biology, and bioinformatics honed during a long tenure at Cornell University where he consulted on computational science and developed constraint-based models to study genetic interactions. He combines a Ph.D. in Computational Biology with a BS in Mathematics and Computer Science to bridge rigorous research methods and production engineering. Known for taking deep technical problems end-to-end, he’s comfortable optimizing performance-sensitive services and translating academic research into practical software. Based in Ithaca, NY, he brings a researcher's curiosity to large-scale, real-world systems engineering.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Mathematics and Computer Science, BS, Mathematics and Computer Science at University of KentuckyDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational Biology at Cornell UniversityGeorge Rogers Clark High School
Stackoverflow
12,248reputation
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55answers
237questions
git
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docker
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maven
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Github Skills (200)
xcb10
effects10
linter10
command-line-tool10
purescript10
login-page10
concurrent10
fiddle10
mathematics10
rust-crates10
nixpkgs10
unison10
multiplayer10
typesafe10
php10
Programming languages (39)
Github contributions (5)
labordynamicsinstitute/metajelo-ui
Jun 2019 - May 2021
UI for metajelo
Contributions:2 releases, 143 commits, 33 PRs in 1 year 11 months
react
bbarker/dotfiles
Apr 2024 - Jul 2026
Contributions:3 PRs, 56 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 3 months
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