Software Engineering Leader

Brad Brown

I'm a self-taught engineer and proven leader with 9+ years' experience helping engineering teams build quality products quickly. I love solving hard problems well, taking on challenges, and helping others grow and learn.

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Brad Brown

"Be the change that you want to see in the world."

Recent Work

Engineering leadership, product systems, and practical delivery.

July 2023 - Present Austin, TX

Habitat Energy

Head of US Software (formerly Full Stack Software Developer)

  • Coordinate with external partners and internal stakeholders to prioritize tasks and coordinate efforts
  • Lead software and MLOps projects from architecture through to successful implementation
  • Manage a growing team to develop team members, organize team output, and ensure team success
  • Create, expand, and maintain web and API systems for data reporting and system controls (Python/Postgres/FastAPI/VueJS)
  • Supervise Machine Learning Operations team to support efficient productionized Data Science systems
  • Oversee Data Engineering systems for real-time performance, intake (ETL), and analytics
May 2021 - July 2023 Remote (Austin, TX)

Unitas Global

Senior Software Engineer

  • Build an automated data warehouse to create a coherent picture of resources across multiple disparate data sources
  • Build an API to collect and present customer-relevant data and collaborate with the front-end team to build a customer portal
  • Develop a solution for automated orchestration of software-defined network routing
  • Contribute at the design and architecture level for various projects, including API schema, DB design, CI/CD, AWS deployment strategy
  • Construct test automation around the system to keep reliable performance and high coverage
July 2020 - May 2021 Remote (Austin, TX)

NRCCUA

Software Developer - Engineer in Test

  • Build a suite of tooling for use in test automation, validation, and reporting (pytest/python-requests/selenium)
  • Modernize and standardize existing test automation to consistent standards and common frameworks
  • Build automation for new products and new angles of test (browser, mobile, API load, etc.)
  • Teach a series of Python classes to help the manual QA team read and contribute to our test automation
Aug 2019 - July 2020 Remote (Austin, TX)

JumpCloud

Software Developer - Engineer in Test

  • Develop a functional test suite for various products within the company, using Python/pytest-bdd
  • Contribute to a framework for API test case auto-generation based on the published API spec
  • Support various CI/CD projects to integrate test automation into the release process
  • Work with dev teams across the company to spread test automation and drive BDD growth
  • Lead a team of 4 contractors assisting with test automation efforts
Oct 2016 - Aug 2019 Remote (Austin, TX)

Rackspace

Software Developer - Engineer in Test

  • Developed a functional/integration API test suite, built in Python on the Behave framework
  • Contributed to multiple forms of UI testing (Selenium/TestCafe)
  • Helped found and grow a company-wide suite of shared development tools
  • Designed and built a company-wide metrics dashboard for test and defect resolution data
  • Acted as the point of contact for our team's ops work (CI/CD integration, DevOps, internal deployments)
  • Maintained OpenShift (docker/k8s) deployment/ops for multiple apps
Oct 2011 - Oct 2016 Austin, TX

TexMash Holdings, LLC

Director of Operations

  • Managed all aspects of a multi-unit restaurant franchise, reporting directly to the Managing Partner
  • Supervised 70+ Team members and 6 General Managers

Toolbox

Built around Python, data systems, APIs, cloud infrastructure, and quality.

Programming Languages

Python, JavaScript/nodeJS/TypeScript, Go

Database

PostgreSQL, Snowflake, EdgeDB, MSSQL, Redis, Mongo

Technologies

Python, FastAPI, Vue3, AWS, Docker, Pytest, Selenium, API Testing, Kubernetes, BDD, Flask, CSS, Jira

Languages

English, Spanish

Education

Formal study and focused software training.

Udacity

Fullstack Developer Nanodegree

2016 - 2016

Udacity

Intro to Computer Programming Nanodegree

Baylor University

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)

2000 - 2004