Brad Gessler
Chief Executive Officer at Angel Investor
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrad Gessler is a seasoned founder and operator with 13+ years scaling developer-focused SaaS and platform businesses from zero to durable growth. As CTO and co‑founder of Poll Everywhere he built and led a 35‑person product and engineering org, grew the business to $10M+ ARR and negotiated enterprise partnerships like Microsoft Office 365, while keeping the company profitable and widely adopted across Fortune 1000 and R1 universities. He later drove Rails adoption at Fly.io during a critical migration wave and now runs Terminalwire and Rocketship, advising and investing in early‑stage SaaS and infrastructure startups. Equally fluent in product, P&L ownership, and developer relations, he’s known for turning hands‑on engineering work—like documentation and zero‑install developer kits—into repeatable distribution channels. Based in San Francisco, he’s pragmatic about tradeoffs and seeks roles where his experience accelerating developer adoption and enterprise expansion can scale further.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Accelerator Program, Artificial Intelligence, Accelerator Program, Artificial Intelligence at Y CombinatorInformatics, Business, Informatics, Business at Indiana University Bloomington
Stackoverflow
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7answers
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Github Skills (15)
technical-writing10
markdown10
markdown-it10
documentation10
laravel-mix9
laravel9
rails9
ruby-rails9
html6
windows6
monitoring6
monit6
god6
ruby6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
superfly/docs
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:1 review, 106 commits, 39 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Brad primarily contributed to the documentation of the `superfly/docs` repository, focusing on providing guides and tutorials for deploying applications on the Fly.io platform. Their work involved updating and reorganizing existing documentation, including the creation of new sections for Rails and Laravel applications. They also made corrections, improved formatting, and added visual elements to enhance the clarity and usability of the documentation.
polleverywhere/glitter
Aug 2012 - Nov 2013
The easiest way to publish Mac software updates with the Sparkle framework to Amazon S3.
Contributions:28 commits in 1 year 3 months
amazon-s3software-update
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