Brad Folkens
CTO Co-founder at iAsk.Ai
Earth, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolBrad Folkens is a seasoned founder and CTO with 11+ years of experience building high-performance, cloud-native systems and AI products across Elixir, Ruby, Python, and mobile platforms. He co-founded and leads CloudSight and iAsk.Ai while spearheading multiple startups and a long-running public-sector SaaS, combining hands-on engineering with product and business leadership. His technical breadth spans ML frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch), container orchestration, databases (MySQL/MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Redis) and multi-cloud deployments, and he holds multiple US, Canadian, and Chinese patents reflecting deep IP-driven innovation. Known for turning research-grade ideas into production services, he pairs formal training in theoretical computer science and mathematics with pragmatic system tuning and scalability expertise. Based in Texas, he continues to ship products that bridge government transparency, AI, and developer tooling.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BS Theoretical Computer Science Mathematics, BS Theoretical Computer Science Mathematics at Northern Illinois University
Stackoverflow
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12answers
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mysql
top-5%
Github Skills (200)
cryptocurrency10
http-client10
req10
package-manager10
amazon10
cryptography10
uiprogressview10
language-server-protocol10
ruby10
bitcoin10
coreanimation10
timezone10
staging10
adapter10
macos10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
bfolkens/py-market-profile
Jan 2020 - Nov 2020
A library to calculate Market Profile (aka Volume Profile) for financial data from a Pandas DataFrame.
Contributions:19 commits, 1 PR, 41 pushes in 10 months
financialstock-marketpythonfinancial-datadataframe
bfolkens/bib
Apr 2020 - Mar 2025
Contributions:62 pushes in 4 years 11 months
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