Summary
Brad Ballard is an IT consultant and full-stack web developer based in Orlando with 11 years of hands-on experience bridging IT support and software development for small to mid-size businesses. He began in network and systems support—earning an MCITP and building servers, RAID arrays, wireless deployments and firewall/security solutions—before retraining in Ruby on Rails and frontend development at Bloc. Since 2015 he has delivered production healthcare applications (CRM and HL7 orders systems) that integrate with EHR APIs and run in Docker, alongside contract JavaScript and Rails work. He combines deep operational troubleshooting and customer-facing support with pragmatic, production-focused engineering, often turning legacy workflows into modern web services. Notably, he developed a cross-platform medical CSV parser and an open-source Rails email parser early in his transition to software, reflecting a penchant for tooling that solves real-world operational problems.
11 years of coding experience
Associate of Science (A.S.) Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Associate of Science (A.S.) Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at Santa Fe College
Multimedia Design Certificate Graphic Design, Multimedia Design Certificate Graphic Design at Bridgerland Technical College
Associates of Science Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Associates of Science Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at Seminole State College of Florida
Computer Programming, Computer Programming at Bloc
English