Brandon Bodnar
Principal Engineer at ScaledBy US
Waukee, Iowa, United States
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Top SchoolBrandon Bodnar is a Principal Engineer with eight years of hands-on experience building AI/ML and cloud-native systems that progressed from whiteboard prototypes to production platforms used daily across federal and enterprise environments. He has led development of mission-focused generative AI tooling at DHS—co-building DHSChat and agentic Text-to-SQL and RAG-based systems—while also scaling ML platforms at John Deere for petabyte-scale training, feature stores, and low-latency model serving. Comfortable both shaping technical strategy and shipping code, he blends full-stack programming (Python, TypeScript, Go, Java) with DevSecOps, observability, and multi-cloud Kubernetes operations. His background spans national security, public sector modernization, and regulated commercial systems, and he mentors teams to raise engineering quality without slowing delivery. An active contributor to open-source tooling, he improved security and TLS handling in gh-ost, a widely used MySQL online schema migration tool. Brandon’s unusual pairing of a J.D. and technical degrees with prior military linguist experience informs his disciplined approach to secure, policy-aware engineering.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
J.D. concentration in Public Law, J.D. concentration in Public Law at Cornell Law SchoolBachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Iowa State UniversityAssociate of Arts (A.A.) Arabic, Associate of Arts (A.A.) Arabic at Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center
English, Arabic
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Github Skills (10)
mtls10
database-security10
ssl10
go10
tls1210
tls1310
mysql10
libtls10
command-line-interface9
error-handling8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
github/gh-ost
Jan 2019 - Feb 2019
GitHub's Online Schema-migration Tool for MySQL
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 11 comments in 5 days
Contributions summary:Brandon primarily contributed to enhancing the security and functionality of the MySQL schema migration tool. They added features for establishing secure SSL/TLS connections to MySQL servers, including options for certificate verification. The user also made code adjustments, addressing casing issues, refining the TLS configuration process, and improving error handling.
mysqlschema-migrations
brandonbodnar-wk/frugal
Dec 2017 - Apr 2019
Thrift improved
Contributions:14 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 3 months
javaimprovedthrift
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