Brandon Pennington

Brandon is a software engineer at Reinventing Geospatial, Inc. (RGi), providing data integrity solutions for large holdings of client data, as well as performing customer facing and backend duties on an enterprise level high-compute data science environment for the customer. He has experience with designing relational databases, spatial statistics and models, and has really enjoyed diving into cloud-based architecture and working on big data solutions that truly make an impact.

Brandon also serves as University Relations liaison for the University of Maryland (UMD), College Park, by organizing student involvement efforts, coordinating and attending UMD career fairs, and interacting with student and veteran organizations.

Prior to joining RGI, Brandon served as a Cryptologic Linguist in the United States Air Force for 10 years, and was stationed in both Hawaii and Maryland.

Outside of work, Brandon enjoys:

  • Ultramarathons, hiking, and physical endurance events in general
  • Homebrewing beer (especially stouts and porters!)
  • Gardening
  • Playing video games
  • Going to concerts

Brandon graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park, in the fall of 2021 with BS degrees in Data Science (with Latin Honors) and Geographic Information Sciences (GIS).