Ryan Bradford

San Francisco, CA
781.816.3825
ryanbradford333@gmail.com

Experiences

Member of the Technical Staff III

Jan. 2021 - Pres.

VMware - Cloud Director Service San Francisco, CA
  • Implemented a user interface using a TypeScript Angular front-end and Java Spring APIs that reduced the time to connect a datacenter to the VMware platform by 80%
  • Served as the team's build-czar, using Jenkins, Cypress, TestNg, Logz.io, Wavefront to identify critical failures, resulting in a reduction in production incidents and improved test reliability
  • Used Terraform to deploy an application image to AWS Cloudfront for customer to install that will connect to our Helm managed Kubernetes server, ensuring a secure and up-to-date product
  • Designed a system using Java Netty to spread long-lived connections across multiple Kubernetes pods, resulting in significantly less downtime by reducing single points of failure
  • Mentored three team interns, enabling them to become productive team members and future employees
  • Authored a VMware Multi-Cloud Tech Day paper, which won first place in the security group
  • Created two patents, filed by VMware, related to innovations derived from our product
  • Modernized how users configure their VMs by creating a Java Spring Shell configuration command line interface

UI Engineer

Jan. 2020 - Jan. 2021.

VMware Boston, MA
  • Contributed to an open source TypeScript Angular project to help increase developer productivity
  • Developed a TypeScript Angular quick search feature to allow users to navigate around our application
  • Converted our application to use CSS variables to allow for users to easily theme the webpage
  • Worked to make our TypeScript Angular application fully Level AA Accessibility compliant

Software Engineering Co-Op

Jan. 2019 - June 2019

Jobcase Cambridge, MA
  • Implemented a Java Spring API and Hibernate managed PostgreSQL database to manage ~600 cron jobs
  • Spearheaded the update of all three internal TypeScript Angular consoles to Angular 8
  • Created a Scala domain specific language compiler that produces entity relationship diagrams

Research Assistant

Mar. 2018 - Jan. 2019

ReGame VR Lab Boston, MA
  • Worked with a team developing a wearable monitor to track pediatric patients in outpatient therapy
  • Built a Node.js, Express.js API and a MySQL database to store patient information in a secure way
  • Architected a React Native application for both patients and therapists to view progress

Education

Northeastern University

Sept. 2017 - Dec. 2020

Khoury College of Computer Sciences | Honors College Member Boston, MA

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science & Economics | GPA: 3.97/4.0

Projects

Co-founder and Product Developer

Sept. 2017 - Jan. 2019

Epidemik - A crowd-sourced disease data collection service Boston, MA
  • Won 1st place in the Northeastern University Startup Challenge competing against 9 other startups
  • Designed a API using Node.js, Express.js, MySQL that gave warnings about growing infectious trends for diseases
  • Integrated with Google Maps using JavaScript to display the disease trends
  • Built and published a Swift iOS Application to allow users to access our API easily
References Available Upon Request
This résumé was wholly typeset with HTML/CSS — see https://git.io/fAIUU

Technologies

  • Backend: Java, Spring, Hibernate, TypeScript, Express.js, Scala, SQL
  • Frontend: Angular, TypeScript, Swift, React, React Native, HTML, CSS
  • Dev OPs: Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, Jenkins, Terraform, Linux, Bash