Brad Barkhouse
Founder And CEO at Be A Contender Software Services Inc.
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Top SchoolBrad Barkhouse is a seasoned full stack developer and entrepreneur with over two decades of experience building responsive web applications and APIs, and nine years leading his company, Be A Contender Software Services Inc. As Founder and CEO he builds and operates MySportsFeeds, a real-time, crowd-sourced sports data API that showcases his knack for productizing data services. He combines deep backend database modeling (Oracle, Sybase, MySQL) and Java/JEE expertise with modern front-end toolkits (Angular, Bootstrap, jQuery) and web services (REST/SOAP). His career spans enterprise roles at RIM and Liberty Mutual to hands-on contracting across industries, reflecting an ability to translate complex domain requirements into practical, scalable systems. Based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, he brings entrepreneurial drive plus a pragmatic engineering focus that favors robust integrations and maintainable architectures.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Park View Education CenterB.Comp.Sc, Computer Science, B.Comp.Sc, Computer Science at Technical University of Nova Scotia
Github Skills (11)
data-api10
nhl-api10
sports-data10
espn9
api9
ruby-wrapper8
nodejs8
python7
php7
ruby4
golang1
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
MySportsFeeds/mysportsfeeds-python
Jun 2017 - Sep 2021
Python wrapper for the MySportsFeeds Sports Data API
Contributions:1 release, 34 commits, 12 PRs in 4 years 4 months
apidata-apipythonpython-wrappersports-stats
MySportsFeeds/mysportsfeeds-r
Jun 2017 - Feb 2021
R wrapper functions for the MySportsFeeds Sports Data API
Contributions:17 commits, 5 PRs, 15 pushes in 3 years 9 months
apidata-apiwrapper-functionsmysportsfeedssports
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