Alexander Bradford
Senior Engineering Manager at Box
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlexander Bradford is a Senior Engineering Manager with 15 years of experience building and scaling high-throughput backend systems, now leading teams at Box in the San Francisco Bay Area. He combines strong object-oriented and test-driven design with hands-on experience in Java, Python, and high-performance C/C++, and has taken systems from ground-up microservices to production handling tens of millions of events per day. Alexander pairs cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder communication with the ability to drive features end-to-end, and has contributed to notable open-source projects including zkSync (Solidity smart contract work) and nlohmann/json (locale-independent number parsing). Known for turning fuzzy requirements into pragmatic, fault-tolerant designs, he brings both managerial leadership and deep technical craftsmanship to distributed cloud services.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science and Business Administration, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science and Business Administration at University of Southern CaliforniaHigh School Diploma General Eductation, High School Diploma General Eductation at Poway High School
English, Spanish
Github Skills (21)
zksync10
json10
json-parser10
javascript10
c-language10
solidity10
data-serialization10
serialization10
front-end-development10
parse10
smart-contracts10
pjax10
cprogramming-language10
data-structure9
algorithm9
Programming languages (28)
Github contributions (5)
matter-labs/zksync
Jun 2019 - Dec 2019
zkSync: trustless scaling and privacy engine for Ethereum
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily contributed to the core smart contract logic of the zkSync project, focusing on implementing deposit and withdrawal functionalities. Their work involved modifications to the `Franklin.sol` contract, including the addition of migration-related features and improvements in commenting. The user's contributions involved the use of Solidity, highlighting their expertise in smart contract development.
ethereumzksyncteam-core
nlohmann/json
Dec 2016 - Jan 2017
JSON for Modern C++
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:30 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily focused on improving the codebase's number parsing and serialization functionalities. Their work included implementing a locale-independent number parsing mechanism (`strtonum`) to handle number parsing and serialization. Furthermore, the user improved overflow detection within the number parsing logic, leading to more accurate numerical conversions. They also added a locale-independent number-to-string serialization feature.
cppjsonjson-pointerjson-patchcbor
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