Brandon T. Kowalski

current roles

Cornell University Library

[December 2021 - Now]

senior software engineer within library applications development

Abstract Elemental

[August 2017 - Now]

co-founder of an Ithaca based software development firm

past roles

Cornell Center for Social Sciences

[August 2016 - December 2021]

software engineer responsible for facilitating end-user goals, data collection, software architecture and grant writing

The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research

[May 2016 - August 2016]

software developer for world's largest archive of public opinion data

TIAA

[June 2014 - May 2016]

software developer of retirement industry related products

work projects

Freedom on the Move

crowdsourcing endeavor to transcribe runaway slave advertisements

past work projects

CISER Data & Reproduction Archive

total redesign of archive, making reproduction a first class citizen

libraries

fannypack

library that loads tagged sql queries by name for use in your application

jqb2jooq

library that bridges jQuery QueryBuilder & JOOQ

presentations

Rediscovering the Stories of Self-Liberating People

IASSIST 2019 | Sydney, NSW, AU

explores the launch of Freedom on the Move and our desire to link disparate data sources

Curiosity's Fulcrum

IASSIST 2018 | Montréal, QC, CA

explores how to leverage the citizen historian to explore and transcribe the history of the Antebellum South

Metadata-Driven Gamification

NADDI 2017 | Ithaca, NY, USA

explores how the Freedom on the Move project leverages metadata in order to provide a rewarding experience

giving back

Day with Code

weekend workshop for middle schoolers that teaches the fundamentals of programming using Scratch