Brad Gignac
Principal Engineer at ProsperOps
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolBrad Gignac is a Principal Engineer with 17 years of experience building cloud APIs, web applications, and infrastructure, currently driving platform work at ProsperOps after a long tenure leading platform and engineering teams at Rackspace. He combines hands-on development—contributing to notable open-source projects like the Fog Ruby cloud library for Rackspace identity—with senior leadership in platform engineering and AWS-focused support. A Virginia Tech computer engineering graduate with an embedded-systems background, Brad has consistently bridged low-level understanding and large-scale web systems design. He’s passionate about mentoring and teaching, regularly running technical workshops and presentations to raise team capability. Notably, his early entrepreneurial work involved designing messaging platforms and publishing systems, demonstrating a practical product-minded approach alongside deep technical craft.
17 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Virginia Tech
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (11)
api10
apidoc10
ruby10
testing9
model-view-controller9
cloud-computing8
vbnet6
asp-net6
asp-net-mvc6
development-environment6
console6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
fog/fog
Apr 2012 - Apr 2013
The Ruby cloud services library.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:55 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Brad contributed to the Rackspace Fog library, specifically focusing on implementing the identity service for Rackspace. They added the necessary files, requests, and tests to interact with the Rackspace identity service API. Moreover, they added the database and server model. The user also updated existing files to handle changes in API responses and improved the handling of hash/array responses.
cloud-servicesrubygemstest-kitchenfogruby
bradgignac/dotfiles
Jan 2015 - Aug 2023
Contributions:24 pushes in 8 years 7 months
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