Brandon Herford

Trained as an artist at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (BFA, Art & Technology), I came to software engineering through networked objects

physical computing, and interactive systems — a foundation that put design thinking and technical execution on equal footing from the start.

Geo-Instruments (2024 - Current) User Interface Development, Construction Technology, Geological Technology
Construction Task Classification Classify Building Construction Tasks, LLM, test-davinci-003, Command Line Tool, Concept
Suffolk Construction (2021 - 23) Bryntum.js, JavaScript, Playwright end-to-end testing

Interlinked (2023) LLM, Data Visualization
"Monitoring CCR Pond Closures" (2021) .NET, JavaScript, CSS
"Real Time Pore Pressure Monitoring" (2021) .Net, JavaScript, CSS
United Way (2017) Jekyll, Static Site Generator, CSS
ColdEeze (2015) Visual Design, wireframes

For the past decade

I have worked across that full intersection: agency-era UI/UX design and brand work for national clients,

through to production frontend engineering on enterprise-scale platforms serving hundreds of active construction projects. I bring a designer’s eye to component architecture and data visualization, and an engineer’s rigor to design systems and interface decisions.

Writing

Brandon writes about his design and development work and ideas on his Medium blog.

Pushing code

While working through the online engineering program "Launch School", Brandon also maintains personal projects on GitHub.

Design & Illustration

Brandon has a Bachelors of Fine Art, and maintains a sketch book and Dribbble account with work and ideas.