# Bradley Gunn

> Software Engineer, Mentor, Team Builder

Location: Floral Park, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/bradleygunn

A senior software engineer with over 15 years experience whom best thrives in the challenging
environment of early stage companies. As a first or early engineering hire, I have shaped the growth of companies and have participated in leadership, hiring, and strategic planning. 

Brad has experience architecting full stack cloud native solutions hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS) which includes database design, APIs and service layers, front ends, continuous deployments, application security, and more.

Typescript/Monorepo expert. Aurora, OpenSearch, ElasticCache, Lambda, API Gateway, React, microfrontends, tailwindcss, ABAC through RBAC, and more.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Warner Bros. Discovery
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | New York, United States
•	Architected AWS multi-region cache coherency solution using Redis/Valkey and Global Datastore, Lua Scripting, NodeJS/Typescript, and AWS OpenSearch + ElasticSearch enabling consistent edge enabled content catalogue for tenants: Max.com, discoveryplus.com, and more
•	Reduced Kubernetes (EKS) NodeJS/Typescript pod memory usage by 66% through optimization initiatives, eliminating pod restarts and enhancing system stability via flame graphs and memory debugging
•	Contributed to federated GraphQL performance tiger team, optimizing API endpoints for high-volume transaction processing up to 20,000 requests per second served via Apollo and NodeJS/Typescript with Aurora Postgres and Redis
•	Designed and implemented multi-tenancy architecture enabling seamless service operations across multiple WBD brands implemented in NodeJS/Typescript, Java, Kafka, and gRPC
•	Implemented robust error handling and monitoring solutions across EKS pods, Lambda, and supporting services resulting in 40% faster incident resolution times and improved system observability via Prometheus, Grafana, PagerDuty, and Slack workflows.
•	Maintained 24/7 application reliability through regular on-call rotations and global launch support shifts
•	Built self-service workflows with appropriate guardrails, improving operational efficiency while preserving security standards
•	Collaborated effectively with remote engineering teams across different geographies and time zones
•	Applied data-driven approaches to performance optimization, establishing KPIs for availability, reliability, and security metrics

### Full Stack Engineer @ SellX
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | New York, New York, United States
• Created and maintained NodeJS / Typescript APIs producing responses via GraphQL
• Created and maintained all frontend code in Typescript/React using supporting technologies:
Apollo GraphQL, JWT, and redux
• Created search feature that aggregated relevant data and relationships for end users using
ElasticSearch
• Created mono repo of microservices based on the serverless.js/AWS Lambda framework written
in Typescript/NodeJS. Microservice black-boxed and communication through SQS or stateless
websockets and individually scaled to company needs ultimately servicing hundreds of HTTP
REST and WS endpoints, synchronization tasks, cron jobs, and other business support functions
such as Hubspot, Twillio, Stripe, Salesforce, Zappiar and more.
• Manage all AWS Infrastructure across organization through Cloudformation Templates in
modern, best practices, and ISO compliant patterns. Technologies include VPC, Bastion, EC2,
MongoDB, EB snapshots, Internet Gateway, Lambda, SQS, IAM and SSM parameters, key
rotation and more.

### Lead Software Engineer @ Warner Music Group
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | New York, New York, United States
● Web and API team lead responsible for WMG AMP application released onto App and Play stores
utilizing swift and dart/flutter; application is platform analytics for artist performance
● Enhanced, maintained, and rolled out web based artist royalty software written in Javascript /
Angular and Java across 72 different countries across 3 AWS regions: USEast, EUWest, and Japan
● Improved SAP + Pentaho data ingestion pipelines including security of statement data, job and
field level processing, and resiliency to failure and rolling deployments
● Proposed and championed improvements to soft processes, e.x. headless CRM for translation,
document, and fragment management used to version ToU, PP, GDPR, and more
● Designed API specification enhancement for petabyte data lake migrated from Redshift to
Snowflake to reconcile various data sources: Spotify, Youtube (3x), Amazon (4x), and more
● Proposed and managed team responsible for unifying various early (1980+) CMS systems to
better coordinate artist release calendars for optimized results

### Front End Lead @ Skubana
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Greater New York City Area
● Created Javascript based GraphQL project intended for use across AWS Lambda (NodeJS) and for
model consumption via React/Apollo in support of Java micro services migration
● Designed GraphQL Saga SOA approach (orchestration) for mutation state handling using a
mixture of syncronous and asynchronous tree traversals to roll back or forward across services
● Proposed and implemented phased migration plan from JSP + jQuery pages using a web
component approach to minimize business code impact (rewrite over time)
● Utilized Storybook for UI component library to be used during rewrite and to enhance
communication between customer facing resources such as support and account managers
● Integrated Cypress.io e2e tests on top of Storybook with mock server support to ensure the
integrity of components over time and reduce dependency on Java based APIs during
development
● Lead initiative for SSO to consolidate API security with permission set modeled after AWS IAM.
● Hired 3 direct reports while contributing architectural input cross-team including SSO, GraphQL,
and WebComponents
● Provided mentorship across several topics ranging from React through Series A expectations to
engineers resulting in the direct retention of at least one critical engineer

### Contract - Senior Software Engineer @ AltSchool
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | Greater New York City Area
● Improved the performance of API calls site wide by up to 50% using Python and Django
● Created services on AWS Lambda to sync third party application data to and from Postgres via
triggers such as webhooks, cron, and S3
● Designed and implemented search features for several surfaces 
● Expanded and secured custom user roles and permissions framework
● Migrated storage of all end user digital assets from public AWS S3 ACLs to private, signed, and
permissioned endpoints
● Implemented feature requests for end user interfaces in Ember.js with comprehensive unit,
integration, and acceptance tests

### Contract - Senior Software Engineer @ Camera IQ
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Greater New York City Area
● Designed and implemented APIs and services to power real time augmented reality applications
using Java8, Unity, and MySQL
● Implemented rich decision pathing that considered user time, location, and
orientation parameters
● Optimized sound, image, and video data using tools such as ImageMagick and Unity3D engine
● Ensured compatibility across SDK versions, AR toolkits, and OS versions through extensive
automated testing
● Managed AWS infrastructure with continuous integration via Cloud Formation

### Director of Technology @ Innovation Department
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Greater New York City Area
● Oversaw a team of engineers in an accelerator setting across several distinct companies using
Ruby, NodeJS, and React
● Demonstrated abilities in system conceptualization and architecture, prototype implementation,
working cross-functionally, and collaborating with others to achieve success cross-company
● Responsible for creating, improving, and developing IT project strategies
● Expanded end to end hiring, retention, and incentive initiatives; doubling the team size in 1 year
● Emphasized data driven development around KPIs supported by user segmentation, split
testing, and statistical significance across touchpoints such as ads, landing pages, and emails

### Application Development Manager @ MWW
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Greater New York City Area
● Managed a team of engineers across projects for Samsung, Waste Management, Related
Noise, and more
● Architected and implemented a self scaling and self healing computation cluster to consume the
GNIP data feed with failover support in NodeJS and 0MQ
● Created “related noise” algorithms to allow brand managers to search for and surface content of
interest from our data pipeline, manually or automatically, and re-publish it
● Created widgets that would allow brand managers to embed beautiful representations of their
saved data streams
● Pioneered native advertising within embedded streams. Advertisements were programmatically
chosen based on surrounding content to appear user generated
Kinvolved, CTO

### Chief Technology Officer @ Kinvolved
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014
Kinvolved is an attendance product aimed at reducing lateness and absenteeism across academic and extracurricular activities . Our mission is to increase graduation rates by creating a comprehensive picture of a student's needs through real time analysis of data. Parents, and optionally students, can use Kinvolved to be proactively engaged through two way communication via text and email covering lesson plans, concept mastery, and more.

We are building out plenty of new features, so stay tuned!

### Senior Software Engineer @ Honest Buildings
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013
Honest Buildings is a commercial real estate marketplace that matches top building professionals with building owners, decision makers and project managers. Architects, engineers, contractors and technology providers can quickly create a custom profile and showcase relevant case studies to a network of tens of thousands of real estate professionals, including owners and other decision-makers who are looking to bid out building projects. The HB Network originated over $55 million of transactions in 2013.

First non founding product team hire that has seen Honest Buildings grow from Angel through A and through several strategic pivots. Having held an early role, I was directly involved in implementing growth initiatives while designing office space and growing a team.

- Designed and aided in the implementation of the entire system architecture
- Recruited and hired across the product team to 10
- Responsible for first office space build out and tech infrastructure acquisition

### Senior Software Engineer @ Salesforce Marketing Cloud
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012
Member of team ConversationBuddy. 

Placed 3rd of 22 teams participating in the Buddy Media hackathon Spring 2012.


## Education
### B.S. Computer Science in Computer Science with Minor in Business Adminsitration
New York Institute of Technology
Jan 2006 – Jan 2010


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/gunnbradley

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Last updated: 2026-03-22