Brad Alexander
Senior Software Engineer at PlayMetrics
Oak Park, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolBrad Alexander is a Senior Software Engineer based in the Greater Chicago Area with over 17 years of web platform experience and a decade in senior roles building scalable, production-grade systems. He currently drives engineering at PlayMetrics and Stack Sports, bringing deep backend expertise and a history of leading frontend-to-backend projects since early roles at Telogis and Lexan Group. Brad contributes to notable open-source infrastructure like Dagster, where his backend fixes and ergonomics improvements addressed race conditions and improved observability for data orchestration. He’s comfortable designing frameworks from scratch, has led project delivery and architecture teams, and still rolls up his sleeves to debug tricky runtime issues. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic engineering tradeoffs that balance performance, reliability, and developer experience. A practical systems thinker, he often surfaces subtle runtime and API ergonomics improvements that reduce operational friction.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
University of North Texas
Github Skills (13)
orchestration10
dagster10
orchestra10
data-pipeline10
data-pipelines10
python10
testing9
data-engineering9
workflow-engine9
workflow-automation8
analytics7
data-integration7
etl7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
dagster-io/dagster
Jul 2022 - Jul 2022
An orchestration platform for the development, production, and observation of data assets.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 28 reviews, 1 commit in 1 day
Contributions summary:Brad made several contributions focused on improving the Dagster orchestration platform. They addressed a race condition in the run monitor, added a class to the core host representation for better API ergonomics, and corrected and reverted a failing test. Additionally, they removed a positional argument to the `__dir__` function and adjusted a log level for missing partitions to improve user experience. These commits focused on backend logic and overall functionality.
operationpythonobservationschedulermetadata
brad-alexander/salt
Apr 2016 - Apr 2019
Software to automate the management and configuration of any infrastructure or application at scale. Get access to the Salt Open software package repository here:
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 11 months
pythonsaltdevopspuppetinfrastructure
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