Brandon Niemczyk :: Software Engineer

Brandon began his love affair with computers by modifying games in MS-DOS. He has been manipulating machines to do his bidding through-out his professional and personal life.

On the professional side, Brandon spent three years writing software to help the construction industry with its unique accounting and business needs before joining DTS. Over the last three years at DTS he has written a large variety of software focusing primarily on data management, asset management, and GIS.

On his personal time he has created and released several open-source projects, including an Internet Relay Chat client for Unix and his current project Quagga, a functional programming language. He has worked with dozens of languages and environments, from Assembly and C on the system level to the latest .NET languages and many others.

Programming is a mindset, not a job. The tools and techniques used are changing at an ever-increasing pace and will continue to evolve as the industry learns and formalizes better abstractions and tools. The constants that are a must for a good developer are open-mindedness, curiosity, and a desire to find elegant solutions to difficult problems of all types.

If you close your mind you end up force-fitting problems into solutions that are not optimal. Without curiosity you cease to learn, which is death in the fast-advancing pace of software development. Solving problems – from business work flow problems to mathematical – is what we do, plain and simple.