Brad Fritz
Carmel, Indiana, United States
Summary
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RockstarBrad Fritz is a seasoned server-side software engineer with over 16 years of experience building, deploying, monitoring, and supporting systems that help clients better serve their customers. He focuses on improving integration and delivery pipelines to enable faster, higher-quality releases and brings deep expertise in backend development and test automation. An active open-source contributor, he has made practical fixes and added diagnostic testing improvements to well-known projects like Logstash and http4s, addressing subtle bugs in parsing, plugins, and test deadlocks. Based in Carmel, Indiana, Brad combines hands-on troubleshooting with pipeline and deployment strategy, often surfacing hard-to-reproduce issues through improved test infrastructure and observability. Colleagues rely on him to translate operational pain points into durable engineering solutions that reduce firefighting and speed delivery.
16 years of coding experience
Github Skills (18)
imap10
testing10
http10
scala10
http-client10
http-server10
jruby10
json9
java9
type-safety9
syslog9
fs9
javas9
cat9
codec8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
http4s/http4s
Jan 2017 - Apr 2017
A minimal, idiomatic Scala interface for HTTP
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Backend Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:92 commits, 77 PRs, 23 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Brad primarily contributed to the testing infrastructure and identified issues related to timeouts and deadlocks within the HTTP4s project. Their work involved integrating a `ThreadDumpOnTimeout` trait to aid in diagnosing failures, specifically focusing on the `AsyncHttpClientSpec` and `CharsetRangeSpec` tests. Additionally, they modified the build configuration to include more detailed test output for diagnosing issues and updated external dependencies.
idiomatichttp-clientscalafs2typelevel
elastic/logstash
Aug 2013 - Jan 2014
Logstash - transport and process your logs, events, or other data
Role in this project:Backend Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Backend Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:22 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Brad contributed to the Logstash project by addressing issues related to the Syslog5424 filter, specifically ensuring correct handling of process IDs and structured data. They also worked on improving the IMAP input plugin, introducing a configurable content-type selection for multipart messages and addressing a bug related to extra items fetched. Furthermore, the user implemented and refined tests for the oldlogstashjson codec, including both decoding and encoding functionalities, while also adding documentation improvements.
eventsstreamingloggingetl-frameworklogstash
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