Brandon Odom

Software Engineer

brandon.david.odom@gmail.com

(228) 493-6366

Austin, Texas

brandonodom.com

Professional Experience

Software Engineer

Nov 2024 - Present

Unnamed Industrial Metal Company

Leading redesign of a large industrial metal company's website
Leveraging contemporary web dev stack and tools
Building out back end infrastructure to create a long lasting and maintainable product

Software Development Engineer

Sept 2019 - Jul 2022

Amazon Web Services

Contributed to the release of two new products
Upgraded and maintenanced crucial live service infrastructure
Routinely worked on-call to address critical and after-hours issues
Created and maintained internal documentation and run books

Graduate Research Assistant

Jan 2016 - Dec 2017

Student Worker

May 2014 - Dec 2015

Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems

Worked with Autonomous Navigation Virtual Environment Laboratory (ANVEL), a high-fidelity real-time simulation environment
Created a network bridge to allow for communication between ANVEL and the Robotic Operating System (ROS)
Developed multiple UIs for human factors studies
Assisted in robot modification in maintenance both hardware and software

IT Intern

May 2012 - Jul 2012; May 2013 - Jul 2013

St. Stanislaus College

Created accounts and conducted PowerGrade set up for incoming teachers
Assisted summer personnel by troubleshooting various computer issues
Performed routine maintenance and upgrades on all computers on campus

Education

MS in Computer Science

2013 - 2015

Mississippi State University

Specialization: Artificial Intelligence
Master's Project: "Therabot UI: Creating a human-friendly interface for Therabot interaction"
Worked under Prof. Cindy Bethel on numerous social robotic projects and papers
Worked with Prof. Chris Archibald on computational pool simulator CueCard

BS in Computer Science

2010 - 2013

Mississippi State University

Minor: Cognitive Science
Member of the Social, Therapeutic, and Robotic Systems Lab (STaRS Lab)

Publications

"Therabot™: A Robotic Support Companion"

Darrow, Sarah, Aaron Kimbrell, Nikhil Lokhande, Nicholas Dinep-Schneider, T. J. Ciufo, Brandon Odom, Zachary Henkel, and Cindy L. Bethel. "Therabot™: A Robotic Support Companion." In Companion of the 2018 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, pp. 37-37. ACM, 2018.

2018

"ANVEL-ROS: The integration of the robot operating system with a high-fidelity simulator."

Hudson, Christopher, Daniel W. Carruth, Cindy L. Bethel, Alexander Lalejini, and Brandon Odom. "ANVEL-ROS: The integration of the robot operating system with a high-fidelity simulator." In Proceedings of Ground Vehicle Systems Engineering and Technology Symposium, p. 378. 2015.

2015

Skills

Development

PythonTypeScriptJavaAWSHTML5ReactNext.jsTailwindROSCLIPS

Design

UI DesignUX DesignPrototypingUser ResearchHuman Factors

Tools

VS CodeTerminalLLMsGitMicrosoft OfficeNotionIntelliJ IDEAUnreal EngineMaya

Professional

Agile/ScrumDesign LeadershipTime Management

Certifications

Institutional Review Board (IRB) Certification2015

International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) Certification2014

Miscellaneous

Alumni of the Social, Therapeutic, and Robotic Systems Lab (STaRS Lab)