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
976reputation
394kreached
12answers
0questions
mysql
top-5%
Github Skills (200)
google-cloud-platform10
trading10
ruby10
cryptocurrency10
http-client10
coreanimation10
timezone10
p2p10
google-cloud-build10
elixir10
bitcoin10
amazon-ec210
docker10
homebrew10
language-server10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
bfolkens/dotfiles
Nov 2019 - Dec 2022
Contributions:128 commits, 223 pushes in 3 years 1 month
cignalsio/exchange_zoo
Apr 2023 - Jan 2025
A collection of cryptocurrency exchange APIs.
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 62 pushes in 1 year 9 months
cryptocurrencyapicryptocryptocurrency-exchangeselixir
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