Hi, I'm Branon.
Design engineer currently building @ GitHub
Experience
Senior Design Engineer @ GitHub
Nov 2025 – Present
Senior Design Technologist II @ Smartsheet
Feb 2024 – Oct 2025
Senior Design Technologist @ Endpoint
May 2023 – Feb 2024
Design Technologist @ Color
Dec 2021 – Mar 2023
UX Engineer @ Linus Health
May 2021 – Dec 2021
UX Engineer @ Charter Healthcare
May 2020 – May 2021
UX Engineer @ TheraMind
Dec 2019 – May 2020
Other
Designer, Engineer & Creator @ HumanHands
Nov 2019 – Present
Education
B.S. - Neuroscience @ Westmont
Dean's Scholarship
Social Entrepreneurship @ Westmont
C.S.E. Scholarship
Honors & Accomplishments
Hackathon: Merge Award Winner
GitHub · Dec 2025
Hackathon: A11y & Inclusion Award Winner
Color · Aug 2022
Skills
In the Wild
View all →Secret scanning public monitoring
GitHub · July 2026
World's largest integrated health DBWorld's largest integrated health database
The New York Times · June 2026
Secret scanning extended metadataSecret scanning extended metadata checks
GitHub · February 2026
Smartsheet's redesign: AI & a11y
DesignRush · October 2024
DCTclock - TIME Best Inventions of 2021
TIME · November 2021
Publications
The Need for INCLUSION.md
Designsystem.news · May 2026
We Used UX Research After an Accessibility Audit. Here's What Happened.
Human Centered · Dec 2022
Making Tech Products More Accessible in 5 Simple Steps
Human Centered · May 2022
The Role of the Insula in Classical and Dissociative PTSD: A Double Case Study
Neurocase · Apr 2022
Assessment of multiple salivary biomarkers during rTMS treatment for major depression
Psychiatry Research · June 2021
Treating dissociative PTSD presenting as a functional movement disorder with TMS
Neurological Sciences · May 2020