Brad Estey
Senior Frontend Engineer at Toolpath
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrad Estey is a Senior Frontend Engineer based in Atlanta with 12 years of experience building human-centered web applications using React, Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind, and Figma. He blends a formal graphic design background with deep full-stack chops—having worked across PHP, Laravel, CodeIgniter, Node, MySQL and ASP.NET—which informs his focus on UX, accessibility, and design systems. At Toolpath he drives modern frontend architecture while his prior role as Director of Technology had him engineer and operate multiple ecommerce and service sites end-to-end. An early contributor to PHP tooling like Clockwork, he has practical experience adapting developer tools to legacy frameworks such as CodeIgniter. Colleagues describe him as a design-minded engineer who turns complex requirements into polished, human-friendly products.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, Art, Graphic Design, Bachelors, Art, Graphic Design at Savannah College of Art and DesignBachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Art, Graphic Design, Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Art, Graphic Design at Atlanta College of Art
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Github Skills (14)
debugging10
debug10
php10
codeigniter10
laravel9
browserify6
babeljs6
react-router6
javascript6
ecmascript6
react6
laravel-mix5
logging4
profiling4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
itsgoingd/clockwork
Jan 2014 - Jan 2014
Clockwork - php dev tools in your browser - server-side component
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 3 days
Contributions summary:Brad focused on enhancing the integration of Clockwork with the CodeIgniter framework. They added methods to the CodeIgniter hook, such as `getInstance()`, and made the `clockwork` instance available within CodeIgniter applications. The user updated hook registrations and modified code to support legacy PHP versions. The user contributed to adapting Clockwork to work within the CodeIgniter environment.
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BradEstey/hipsupport
Oct 2014 - Oct 2015
Contributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 11 months
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