Brian M. Sandler
SWE++
[at] briansandler.com
San Francisco Bay Area
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TL;DR
Hi there! I'm a software engineer who loves to design, build, and bring into the world systems that have an effective positive impact. I'm currently with Plato Systems, a startup based in the SF Bay Area building a new and exciting perception system! I have an M.S.E. in Computer and Information Science from the University of Pennsylvania, and a B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara. I've also worked for some other organizations such as Uber and ShadowMaps.
Education
Research: Researched security and fault tolerance of distributed systems as a PhD student.
Coursework: Completed coursework includes software systems, machine learning, big data analytics, computer architecture, theory of computation, and algorithm analysis.
Teaching: During the 2018-19 academic year I was a teaching assistant for the following courses:
Coursework: Completed coursework includes networking, machine learning, operating systems, Python, C, C++, Java, MATLAB, circuit analysis, object oriented design, data structures, computer architecture, digital design with Verilog, computer vision, advanced applications programming, database systems, computer security, and a senior capstone project.
Achievements: Recipient of the 2016 Roger Wood Scholarship and Dean's Honors. Awarded "Outstanding Senior in the Computer Engineering Program" for having the highest GPA of the 2017 Spring Quarter graduating class of Computer Engineering.
Experience
Engineering and building new software systems for perception to enable tagless activity tracking & more.
Deployed GPS location improvement system from ShadowMaps startup at scale. Member of the Sensing and Perception team at Uber. Check out this blog post over here.
- Web application development using Node.js to display real-time GPS satellite information.
- Helped design a cloud application infrastructure using Amazon Web Services (EC2, RDS, ElastiCache).
- Built a RESTful API using Dropwizard/Jersey/Jackson with Java.
- Java application development.
- Startup acquired in July 2016. Check out this page here for more info.
Developed an English language learning tablet application using web technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript). Continued to advise when time permitted after May 2015.
Gathered and analyzed GPS satellite data using MATLAB to investigate the impact of device orientation on GPS signals. Developed a web-based demonstration dashboard displaying close to real-time satellite and position information.
Provided support to end users, wrote documentation, and worked on various projects to help administer computers run by ECI.
Worked in the immunology department conducting various experiments to learn more about kidney immune responses.
Potpourri
- Tech officer of Tau Beta Pi California Sigma Chapter for the 2016-2017 academic year. Member as of Jan 2016.
- Member of FIRST FRC Robotics Team 3128 from Sep 2009 to Jun 2013.
- Technology Student Co-Leader for TEDxYouth@SanDiego from Mar 2012 to Aug 2013.
- I love to snowboard, especially at Mammoth. Though Lake Tahoe is convenient from the Bay Area.
- I also love to hike and explore! I keep a list of my favorite places here.
- Unix/Linux Command Line Tutorial