Brad Bennett
CTO at Tone
Santa Monica, California, United States
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Top SchoolBrad Bennett is a seasoned software engineering leader and CTO with 15 years of experience building scalable products, developer teams, and operational tooling across startups and growth-stage companies. Based in Santa Monica, he blends hands-on engineering with strategic leadership, having led engineering and CTO roles at Tone, Stem Disintermedia, FlashFunders, and others to deliver streaming platforms, regulatory-compliant crowdfunding systems, and high-throughput APIs. He excels in Agile, results-driven environments where he recruits and mentors high-performing teams, automates compliance and operations, and drives measurable ROI from technical investments. Brad’s background spans full-stack development, big-data-backed consumer platforms, and white-label solutions that enabled new revenue channels for clients. Notably, he has a track record of turning capital-intensive projects profitable quickly (e.g., recovering telephony replacement costs in under three months) and of shepherding first-of-their-kind regulatory fundraises to close. He holds an M.S. in Computer Science from UCLA and pairs entrepreneurial instincts with deep engineering rigor.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa CruzUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (27)
rails10
ruby9
mvc9
ruby-on-rails9
html9
activerecord9
flash6
php6
sql6
validation6
django6
migration6
celery6
amazon-ecs6
mysql6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
bradleyjucsc/flash_flow
Dec 2018 - Aug 2020
Contributions:2 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 8 months
bradleyjucsc/rails
Nov 2019 - Aug 2020
Ruby on Rails
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 4 branches in 9 months
ruby-on-railsrailsrubyactivemodelruby-on
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