Summary
Brad Laney is a software developer and architect with 11 years of professional experience building high-availability systems across education, e-commerce, and shipping. He has led architecture and platform efforts at companies like Volusion and uShip, driving standards for NHibernate, microservices, and operational tooling while mentoring teams and championing scrum. Based in Austin, he currently develops community-driven streaming engagement features in Unity and Node.js for Stream Avatars, pairing a Twitch Extension with Steam Workshop content. Brad focuses on reducing team friction and increasing productivity through pragmatic infrastructure choices—everything from SQL Server and ElasticSearch to RabbitMQ and Redis. He routinely turns personal curiosity into side projects to learn new tech, and measures success by how much more freedom his work gives teammates to deliver.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
CIS, Software Development, System Analyst, CIS, Software Development, System Analyst at DeVry University