# Ryan Bradford

> Senior Software Engineer @ Meta

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/ryanbradford

I'm a Software Engineer based out of San Francisco, CA. I moved here in 2022 from my hometown of Boston, MA. I also went to school in Boston at Northeastern University. Here, I received my B.S. in Computer Science and Economics. Since then - professionally, I'm a developer who's great at building production-reach web applications. But I'm also interested in politics and economics. Specifically, housing supply, market-failures, and regulations are a passion of mine. I'm always looking for opportunities to bridge my passion and my profession. Right now, I'm a developer at Meta!
    In my free time, I enjoy rock climbing, hiking, going to tasty coffee shops, and DJing a little. Please feel free to reach out about anything!

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Meta
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States
Working on the Meta AI Business Assistant.

### Software Engineer @ VMware
Jan 2020 – Jan 2024 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- 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 1% 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

### Teaching Assistant @ Northeastern University College of Computer and Information Science
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Greater Boston Area
-Reinforce material and assure every one of 700 students understands everything thoroughly in CS2500: Introduction to Computer Science at Northeastern
-Teach 2 sections of lab where 50 students solve assigned material and discuss solutions
-Hold 4 hours of office hours to guide students through homework problems and help with exam review
-Evaluate and proctor exams; meta-grade homework
-Instructed as a tutor in spring/summer 2018; as a TA from fall 2018 till Present

### Software Engineer Intern @ Jobcase, Inc.
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Greater Boston Area
- 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 in that produces entity relationship diagrams


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science and Economics
Northeastern University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ryan-p-bradford
- Website: http://ryan-bradford.com
- GitHub: http://github.com/ryan-bradford
- Website: https://capsol.io

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Last updated: 2026-03-22