Brad House
Software Developer at Nexthop AI
Jacksonville, Florida, United States
Summary
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RockstarBrad House is a seasoned software developer and technology leader with two decades of experience building secure, compliant payment systems and private cloud infrastructures. He founded and scaled a FinTech company whose payment platform handled hundreds of millions of transactions and tens of billions of dollars annually before its 2018 acquisition, then served as CIO and acting CISO delivering 99.999% uptime, EMV Level 3 validation, and HSM-backed P2PE solutions. Comfortable both leading strategy and writing core C code, he has implemented CI/CD and DevOps tooling, governance frameworks, and complex cryptographic systems. As an independent consultant and current developer at Nexthop AI, he blends hands-on engineering with pragmatic security practices to solve high-stakes problems. An active open-source contributor, he added cross-platform CMake support, testing, and CI automation to the widely used c-ares asynchronous DNS library, demonstrating a detail-oriented approach to portability and build automation. Based in Jacksonville, FL, he combines entrepreneurial grit with deep operational experience in payments, compliance, and resilient infrastructure.
9 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (13)
c1710
cross-platform10
cmake10
dns10
c1110
multiplatform10
build-automation10
async9
asynchronous9
portability8
testing8
automations7
automation7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
c-ares/c-ares
Sep 2016 - Jan 2023
A C library for asynchronous DNS requests
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Automation Engineer
Backend Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:12 releases, 89 reviews, 217 commits in 6 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Brad contributed significantly to the c-ares library by adding and maintaining build system support. Their primary focus was implementing a CMake build system, incorporating testing, and ensuring cross-platform compatibility. They also addressed portability issues related to system differences, and enhanced the functionality of the library. The user's work also involved automating builds and adjusting CI/CD configurations.
asynchronousdnsresolverc-libraryasync
bradh352/ansible-scripts
Jul 2020 - Mar 2025
Contributions:112 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
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