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Websites and custom software, done securely.

I’m an Iowa software engineer who designs and builds clear websites, practical automation, and maintainable custom tools with security considered from the start.

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Holden Brown
Holden BrownIowa software engineer · M.S. student in Secure and Reliable Computing at Iowa State

Selected work

Four websites, built around four different people and organizations.

Open each live site, click around, and judge the work directly. These are the clearest examples of how I handle structure, voice, content, and visual direction.

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Deb Jennings personal-business website

A warm, direct personal-business site that organizes a broad professional story without flattening the person behind it.Visit site

Heather Livesay Brown personal website

A personal site that gives biography, writing, and professional context room to feel connected instead of crammed into a generic profile.Visit site

Main Street School website

A family-facing school site with clearer information paths, a more useful page structure, and photography that supports the school’s character.Visit site

Sean Whalen poetry website

A literary archive that brings Sean’s biography, Iowa landscape, published poems, and thesis record into one coherent home.Visit site

Ways I can help

Useful work, without forcing it into a package.

I’m open to different kinds of work. Tell me what you want to get done, even if it does not fit a neat category.

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Websites

New sites, redesigns, repairs, updates, and low-cost static hosting.

Publishing and site management

Human-approved social posting flows and simpler systems for running a website.

Software and light security

Focused engineering, launch hardening, configuration review, and practical fixes.

Hosting

Fast, low-cost hosting for simple websites

For brochure sites, portfolios, local organizations, and other sites that do not need customer logins or a private database, hosting can stay very simple.

I manage the deployment and updates; Cloudflare hosts the public website and delivers it securely from its network.

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About

I build, study, and teach close to the details.

I’m Holden Brown, an Iowa software engineer currently pursuing a master’s degree in Secure and Reliable Computing at Iowa State University.

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