Brad Greenlee
Director Of Engineering at Fiasco Partners
Mercer Island, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolBrad Greenlee is a seasoned engineering leader with 16+ years building large-scale data and web systems, currently serving as Director of Engineering at Medium and running several independent ventures. He brings deep hands-on expertise across data engineering, systems architecture, and full-stack development—spanning Ruby/Rails, Python/Django, Java, Scala, C/C++, and cloud platforms like AWS and GCP. At Etsy he helped sustain a 10+ billion events/day clickstream with near five-nines reliability, designed CDC/BigQuery point-in-time databases, and built cross-platform messaging and experimentation infrastructure. An active open-source contributor, he improved the notable Scalding Scala library by adding natural language date parsing and idiomatic refinements. Brad pairs strategic consulting experience—rescuing a $3B systems integrator from a “data quagmire”—with indie craftsmanship, evidenced by civic projects and bespoke tooling for Wikimedia and community initiatives. He’s driven by hard problems and shipping pragmatic, high-impact solutions.
16 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. with Honors Computer Science, B.S. with Honors Computer Science at University of Michigan
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Github Skills (14)
date-parsing10
scalatest10
scala10
lib9
sbt7
html6
ajax6
javascript6
routes6
jquery6
geolocation6
ruby6
code-formatting6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
twitter/scalding
Sep 2012 - Nov 2012
A Scala API for Cascading
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Brad primarily focused on enhancing the `scalding` library by adding natural language date parsing capabilities using the Natty library. They implemented new features in `DateRange.scala` and added relevant tests in `DateTest.scala`. Further contributions include fixing issues related to the `upperBound` calculation for natural language dates and refining the codebase for idiomatic Scala practices. The user also updated dependencies and incorporated improvements for handling date formats.
scala
bgreenlee/AdventOfCode
Dec 2017 - Dec 2025
Contributions:476 pushes, 6 branches in 8 years 1 month
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