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
Contact
For discussions around roles, collaborations, or my current projects, LinkedIn is the best way to reach me.