dana brannon

Intro

Hello! My name is Dana Brannon. I created this website to showcase some of my projects. If you want to cut straight to the chase, feel free to check out some of my work.

The wonderfully designed CSS you see before you is the Dimension template created by HTML5 UP. All of the images used on this website are credited to my dad, Shaun Brannon. A big thanks to him for always capturing the magic of the moment when the rest of us are too busy living in it.

Work

• Plantly -- a responsive web app I built using Django and Bootstrap, deployed on DigitalOcean using Nginx and Gunicorn. I wanted to learn Django and wanted to make something useful, so I revamped the iOS app I made in school. Github
• hvsrpy -- a Python package that I helped develop for my work as an undergraduate research assistanthvsrpy. It runs on Plotly's Dash framework. Github
• COVID GCP Pipeline -- a demonstration of my Google Cloud Platform knowledge that ingests Johns Hopkins COVID-19 data in a Jupyter Notebook, models the dataset using SQL and Apache Beam, and displays the results in DataStudio.
• NON-CODING: European Vacation -- a video I made after my trip to Europe in 2019. It isn't technically "work", but I wanted to showcase a little bit of my creative ability.

About

I'm currently on the hunt for a new software engineering position. I graduated from the Cockrell Engineering School at the University of Texas at Austin in 2020. Some of my notable accomplishments include receiving the Unrestricted Endowed Presidential Scholarship, as well as being a co-author on a research paper that was presented at IFCEE 2021.

I am someone that loves to continually expand my knowledge base. I feel that computer science will soon be inextricably linked to any career in STEM, if we haven't reached that point already.

Along with my hunger to learn, I love outdoor activities like kayaking and hiking, as well as taking care of my houseplants, experimenting with new recipes in the kitchen, and painting. I feel that having hobbies outside of the tech space helps keep my creative juices flowing if I need a break from a particularly tricky problem.

Contact

If you would like to get in touch with me, email me at dana.brannon@utexas.edu.

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