Jim Brandt

Jim Brandt's work experience includes being the Chief Technology Officer and Director at Best Practical Solutions, LLC since April 2022 and December 2015, respectively. In these roles, they are involved in product development, engineering, and marketing for open-source issue and ticket tracking solutions.

Jim has also served with The Perl Foundation in various roles, including President and Advisory Board Member, from 2005 to 2019. Their contributions involved chairing the Conferences Committee and supporting the development of the Perl programming language.

Prior to that, Jim was the VP Product, Data Services at wot.io from June 2014 to December 2015. Jim also worked as a Software Engineer at Best Practical Solutions, LLC from March 2012 to June 2014, where they enhanced and supported an open-source ticket tracking system.

Earlier in their career, Jim held positions such as Director, TV/Video/Convergence at Synacor from May 2009 to March 2012, and Senior Systems Analyst at SUNY at Buffalo from October 2000 to May 2009. Jim also worked as an Author/Editor at Onyx Neon, Inc. from January 2005 to January 2006, and as a Technical Writer and Associate Engineer at Comptek Amherst Systems from May 1998 to October 2000.

Jim Brandt attended the University at Buffalo from 1988 to 1992. Jim pursued a degree in English, Psychology, and Computer Science.