Brian Wray

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About

I'm a professional software developer in the Twin Cities area.

Professional History

Target Corporation, Minneapolis, Minnesota

2018 - Present, Senior and then Lead Engineer

I design, build, and maintain applications that manage and position physical inventory in retail stores and distribution centers.

I work here primarily in JVM-based languages and containerized deployments, with a dash of Python.

Thomson Reuters, Eagan, Minnesota

2006 - 2018, Engineer, Senior, then Lead Software Engineer, Legal Technology

Designed, built, and maintained a variety of distributed applications in the legal, regulatory, and financial space.

Development was on both JVM and .NET platforms for a variety of products, including the Westlaw family of legal research tools.

Particularly interesting work includes a large-scale OCR application, which processed millions of images daily.

I operated on-premise as well as on the Amazon Web Services cloud platform.

Education

University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Bachelor of Science

Major concentration of computer science, minor concentration of mathematics.

Degree emphasis of cryptology and computer security.

Alphabet Soup

Some organizations like seeing a list of technologies. Mine is as follows.

Other Interests

Computer Chess

An ongoing hobby since my undergraduate years is the development of programs that play chess.

My creations have competed against both humans and other computer players on the Internet Chess Club (ICC) and during the 2006 Americas' Computer Chess Championships.

Photography

I dabble with my camera. Some examples are viewable here and here.

Contact

Email: b r i a n [at] w r o c k e t . o r g