Hello, I’m

Brandon
Jernigan

A Story Built Across Disciplines.

From military service to law enforcement to software engineering, my journey hasn’t followed a single path—and that’s the point. Each experience has added a new layer to how I build resilient systems. Currently deepening that foundation through graduate Computer Science studies starting this October.

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The Backstory

How I Got Here

Turns out “pick one career” wasn’t really my thing.

I’ve served in the military, built production software across enterprise environments, and worked in law enforcement. It isn’t a straight line—but each chapter shaped how I assess risk, solve hard problems, and engineer reliable platforms.

Somewhere along the way, I figured out I just like building things that matter—and I’m probably going to keep doing that.

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Start

Military

My professional journey began in the military, where I specialized in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), terrain analysis, and mission-focused engineering under high pressure.

It was also where I wrote my first automation tools using Python to streamline field intelligence deliverables—laying the groundwork for software development.

Discipline. Precision. Mission.

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Build

Software Engineering

Curiosity evolved into engineering scalable, secure systems across defense, semiconductors, and identity security.

I’ve designed across the full stack and infrastructure pipeline using Java, Spring Boot, React, Rust, Kubernetes, and modern DevSecOps tooling.

Build. Learn. Solve.

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Service

Law Enforcement

Stepping into public safety grounded my technical perspective in operational accountability, clear communication, and rapid decision-making in volatile situations.

It reinforced the human stakes behind systems and reinforced my commitment to building software people can rely on when failure isn't an option.

Integrity. Service. Accountability.

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Now & Next

Computer Science M.S.

Beginning October 2026, I am pursuing my Master of Science in Computer Science to deepen my command of advanced algorithms, distributed architecture, and systems engineering.

It represents the intersection of everything so far: technical rigor, disciplined execution, and continuous curiosity.

Theory. Architecture. Mastery.

Resume

The quick version

For anyone who wants the less whimsical version: here’s the career snapshot, minus the dramatic lighting.

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Starting October 2026

Master of Science in Computer Science

Graduate Studies · Advanced Computing & Systems Architecture · AI/ML Focus

Oct 2026 – Present

Jul 2025 – Jun 2026

Police Officer

Minot Police Department

Jan 2025 – May 2025

DevSecOps Engineer

Actalent / Quantum Research Intl.

Mar 2024 – Jan 2025

Full-Stack Software Engineer

Delinea / Fastpath

Apr 2023 – Mar 2024

Senior Applications Engineer

Microchip Technology

Feb 2022 – Mar 2023

Senior Software Engineer

Jacobs / NORAD Group

Jul 2015 – Feb 2022

GIS Engineer / Manager

U.S. Army

Work

Stuff I Built Along the Way

Not everything here started as a grand idea. Some of it started as “this is annoying, I can probably fix it.”

EEPROM & Flash Emulator

C · PIC32 · Altium Designer · SPI · I2C · UART · Bare-Metal

A high-speed hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) memory emulator engineered to replace physical serial non-volatile memory (EEPROM/Flash) devices during bench validation and automated firmware testing. What began as a breadboard prototype was engineered into a dedicated, custom multi-layer PCB designed in Altium.

Powered by a bare-metal 32-bit PIC32 MCU, the firmware dynamically emulates standard serial bus protocols (I2C and SPI) at hardware line speeds. It handles configurable memory densities, page write timings, and multi-byte addressing modes on the fly, allowing test engineers to cycle through dozens of device profiles and inject boundary/fault conditions over a UART control interface without swapping silicon ICs.

Software Assurance Dashboard

Python · FastAPI · HTMX · RabbitMQ · Dramatiq · PostgreSQL · ClamAV

A full-stack orchestration platform designed to automate and centralize multi-tool security analysis across software assurance (SWA) projects. It coordinates static application security testing (SAST via SonarQube), software bill of materials generation (SBOM via Syft), dependency vulnerability tracking (SCA via Dependency-Track), and real-time antivirus inspection (ClamAV) for uploaded project archives.

Built around an asynchronous background worker pipeline using Dramatiq and RabbitMQ to manage compute-heavy scans without blocking the user interface, paired with a reactive front end leveraging FastAPI, Jinja2 templates, and HTMX.

No One Likes Parallel

Rust · Serial I/O · CLI · Embedded Tooling

A high-performance serial monitor engineered in Rust to eliminate the friction of debugging hardware and microcontrollers from the command line. Designed as a lean, modern alternative to bloated GUI monitors and cumbersome legacy terminal emulators, it delivers low-latency communication with connected devices without unnecessary overhead.

Leverages Rust’s memory safety and asynchronous I/O to handle high-throughput serial data streams, clean ANSI color rendering, and straightforward device selection without dropping frames or locking the terminal interface.

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No One Likes Parallel Terminal Interface

Harness

Python · CLI · Dev Tools · Stream Processing

A lightweight terminal output filter and stream processor built to cut through the noise of verbose build tools, test suites, and runtime logs. Rather than forcing developers to manually grep through massive stdout and stderr dumps, Harness wraps command execution to isolate, pattern-match, and spotlight critical diagnostics in real time.

Maintains full execution context while surfacing syntax errors, compilation failures, and stack traces instantly—drastically reducing the time spent parsing wall-of-text terminal feedback.