Brad Gonzales
Senior Software Developer at Great West Casualty Company
South Sioux City, Nebraska, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrad Gonzales is a Senior Software Developer with 14 years of professional experience building and modernizing backend systems across Linux, UNIX, and Windows environments. He specializes in Java ecosystems—Maven, Hibernate/JPA, Jenkins pipelines, JAX-RS, and related testing and logging tools—while also bringing practical experience with DB2, PostgreSQL, WebSphere, and container/infra tooling. His career spans defense, commercial, and insurance sectors, with long tenures at Raytheon and Great West Casualty and a recent role at Oriental Trading, showing adaptability to both legacy enterprise and modern CI/CD practices. Brad also serves as a Netops Officer, blending software engineering with operational and network expertise that informs resilient system design. He holds a B.S. in Math and Computer Science from Wayne State College and is comfortable navigating polyglot stacks including Node.js, Python, and shell scripting. A pragmatic problem-solver, he often bridges gaps between project programming, ops, and architecture to deliver maintainable production software.
14 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Math and Computer Science, B.S., Math and Computer Science at Wayne State College
Github Skills (13)
tomcat10
forecasting10
nws10
httpd-server10
data-visualization10
meteorology10
hibernate10
postgresql10
spring10
python10
sql-database10
java10
unidata10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
Unidata/awips2
Apr 2012 - Jun 2014
Weather forecasting display and analysis package developed by NWS/Raytheon, released as open source software by Unidata.
Contributions:1233 commits in 2 years 2 months
forecastingpythoncavetomcatdata-server
oceanobservatories/dataset-spring
Jan 2015 - Jan 2015
Contributions:1 commit in 1 day
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