Brad Mace
DevOps Engineer, Integration Platform
Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolBrad Mace is a pragmatic DevOps engineer and integration platform specialist with 13 years of experience turning complex, error-prone tasks into reliable, well-documented automation. Based in Minnesota, he evolved from building internal web and desktop tools to architecting Gradle builds, CI/CD pipelines, and administering Atlassian, TeamCity, and Artifactory for a major trucking company. He pairs hands-on Java development—demonstrated by performance and UI improvements to the lanterna text-GUI library—with a focus on developer productivity through custom Gradle/IDE plugins and repeatable processes. Brad favors solutions that are user-friendly and maintainable, often spotting needs across teams and shipping tooling that quietly multiplies organizational output.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
University of Minnesota-Morris
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (7)
javas10
front-end-development10
java10
enums10
performance-optimization9
ui-design8
testing5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mabe02/lanterna
Sep 2012 - Sep 2012
Java library for creating text-based GUIs
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:14 commits in 9 days
Contributions summary:Brad primarily contributed to improving the `lanterna` Java library, focusing on the GUI aspect. They addressed code inefficiencies by eliminating excessive object creation, leading to performance optimizations. Further improvements included enforcing naming conventions for enum constants, and making adjustments to the UI such as adding features to the progress bar and activity indicator. Additional commits involved refactoring and bug fixes within the GUI components such as password box and table.
java
bemace/SpotterLevel3
Jul 2021 - Jun 2022
Feeds APRS data into GRLevel3 via custom placefiles to allow tracking of Skywarn spotters
Contributions:2 PRs, 9 pushes, 2 branches in 10 months
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