# Brad Sanders

> Software Engineer at Etsy

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/bradsanders

Software Engineer with over four years of experience using cloud based infrastructures to build scalable, dynamic web applications.  Currently looking for roles in New York City.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Etsy
Jan 2021 – Present | Brooklyn, New York, United States

### Software Engineer II @ Etsy
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Brooklyn, New York, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ Hired, Inc.
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019
- Mentored junior engineers and ramped up their Rails and React skills to increase team velocity
- Lead a team to architect and build a data visualization system for our customers to track success on our platform, including an automated system to migrate data from an ETL pipeline to our relational PostgreSQL database via AWS S3, twice daily and scalable, with zero downtime
- Managed a cross-functional effort to integrate a newly acquired product with our existing application
- Influenced the direction of the product by working closely with product managers and designers to come up with 80/20 solutions that both solve problems for our users and increase the overall velocity of the business

### Software Engineer II @ Hired, Inc.
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018
- Decreased perceived site loading times 20% by changing synchronously loaded content displayed “under-the-fold” to load asynchronously and used a metrics-driven approach to find and resolve application hotspots to improve actual page load times
- Implemented tracking methods while building new features to expose data to our insights teams and help the business make data-driven decisions based on user behavior
- Volunteered to join the on-call rotation as tier one support, leveraging application monitoring services to diagnose and fix application problems as the first line of defense during non-work hours

### Software Engineer I @ Hired, Inc.
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017
- Re-architected our application from a vanilla JavaScript and React hybrid to a single page React and Redux application after influencing the greater engineering organization to make this decision
- Wrote migrations and application code that were backwards and forwards compatible to allow for zero downtime deployments

### Software Developer @ The Slade Dozier Foundation
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | Charleston, SC (remote from San Francisco)
I'm working on this solo development project in an effort to raise money and awareness for Sudden Unexplained Death in Childhood, a rare event characterized by "the sudden and unexpected death of a child over the age of 12 months, which remains unexplained after a thorough case investigation is conducted."  The foundation was named after my nephew Slade, who passed away of SUDC in 2015.

- Braintree integration (PCI compliant)
- UI with jQuery and Bootstrap
- Ruby on Rails

### Software Engineer @ Dot & Bo
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area
I worked as a full stack software engineer to build a new storefront and an internal content management and curation tool.  I used:

- Headless Rails 4.0 API serving JSON
- PostgreSQL
- Elasticsearch
- React.js with flux implementation
- Braintree.js
- Bootstrap

### Pharmacy Technician @ CVS Pharmacy
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | UNC - Chapel Hill

### Laboratory Assistant @ Cox Laboratory
Jan 2008 – Jan 2009 | Department of Radiation Oncology & Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Jan 2005 – Jan 2009


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/bradsanders5

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Last updated: 2026-03-23