Brandon Galloway
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Academic Background
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Associations
Engineering Honor Society focused on academic scholarship and positive community impact. (Illinois Alpha Chapter)
Community driven open-source library for data science in healthcare.
Bradley University
Minor in Mathematics
Associations
Honors program encompassing advanced coursework, seminars, and projects in addition to degree-path study.
Startup company focused on building affordable hardware to enable people of all abilities
Bradley University Data Science Club
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Associations
Engineering Honor Society focused on academic scholarship and positive community impact. (Illinois Alpha Chapter)
Community driven open-source library for data science in healthcare.
Bradley University
Minor in Mathematics
Associations
Honors program encompassing advanced coursework, seminars, and projects in addition to degree-path study.
Startup company focused on building affordable hardware to enable people of all abilities
Bradley University Data Science Club
Professional Highlights
Key roles, ownership, and impact
- PresentPresent
Senior Software Engineer at Liberty Mutual Insurance
US Personal Lines - Underwriting, Rating, Machine Learning, and Vendor-driven data workflows.
Bloomington, IL- •Launched a severless vendor data ingestion suite processing millions of records daily.
- •Unlocked million dollar impact underwriting insites through data engineering and vendor data pipelines.
- •Designed and operated geospatial systems serving the US Personal Lines market.
- •Launched a new motor vehicle record data ingestion platform serving all 50 states.
- •Supported small commercial, geospatial, vehicle, driver, home, and renters data systems.
- •Improved service reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency through autoscaling, performance tuning, and production observability using Datadog and Splunk.
- •Mentored and onboard interns and junior engineers through code reviews, pairing, and architectural guidance.
- April 2023May 2019May 2019→April 2023
Full Stack Software Engineer at COUNTRY Financial
Agency and Marketing - Delivering lead management, marketing, and CRM systems.
Bloomington, IL- •Delivered agency policy administration and lead management systems used by thousands of agents nationwide.
- •Enabled event-driven marketing automation through meta and google lead generation integrations.
- •Automated lead distribution and agent notification workflows, improving lead response times and conversion rates.
- •Engineered a multi-year modernization effort migrating legacy IBM-based systems to cloud microservices.
- •Launched a real-time SMS notification service using Twilio to alert agents of high-priority leads.
- •Designed a blue/green deployment solution on Azure, earning the 'Most Production Ready' hackathon award.
Projects
A few things I’ve built end-to-end
Skills
Currently Tinkering With
My Toolkit
Daily Drivers
Publications
Smart Learning Analytics: Student Academic Performance Data Representation, Processing and Prediction
Smart education requires design, development, implementation and active use of innovative systems, technologies, teaching and learning strategies and approaches that are based on various data sources in academia, modern mathematical methods in data statistics and data analytics, and state-of-the-art data-driven approaches and technologies. This paper presents the up-to-date findings and outcomes of the research, design and development project at the InterLabs Research Institute at Bradley University (USA) aimed at application of a quantitative approach to student academic performance data representation, hierarchical levels of data processing, multiple quality evaluation criteria to be selected and used, and high-quality student academic performance data prediction in smart learning analytics systems.
Data Cleaning and Data Visualization Systems for Learning Analytics
Learning analytics focuses on collecting, cleaning, processing, visualization, and analyzing teaching and learning-related data from a great variety of academic sources. This paper presents the up-to-date findings and outcomes of the research, design, and development projects at the InterLabs Research Institute at Bradley University (USA) that are focused on the analysis and testing of effective systems to clean and visualize student academic performance data for learning analytics.
Contact
For discussions around roles, collaborations, or my current projects, LinkedIn is the best way to reach me.