Brad Mcdermott
Software Engineer, Emerging Technologies at JPMorgan Chase & Co.
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolBrad Mcdermott is a New York–based software engineer with 12 years of experience building full-stack and mobile applications using Java, Kotlin, JavaScript, Python, Ruby, and Android. Currently at JPMorgan Chase’s Emerging Technologies team, he blends enterprise-grade engineering with experimentation in blockchain and developer tooling. He contributed to ConsenSys’s CakeShop project, improving testing infrastructure and adding UI controls for solidity compiler selection and peer validators, reflecting hands-on work in Ethereum tooling. Previously he built the Ghostery Android app from scratch and shipped products with strong user ratings, demonstrating product-minded engineering at smaller teams. With a background in film studies and a stint in video editing, he brings a creative, user-focused perspective to software design and developer experience. Check out his portfolio at bradmcdermott.com for recent projects and demos.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, Film Studies, Bachelor of Arts, Film Studies at University of North Carolina at Wilmington大阪教育大学 / Osaka Kyoiku University
English, Japanese
Github Skills (10)
javas10
java10
testng9
solidity8
javascript8
react8
ethereum7
blockchain7
ide6
sdk6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Consensys/cakeshop
Mar 2019 - Mar 2021
An integrated development environment and SDK for Ethereum-like ledgers
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 5 reviews, 228 commits in 2 years
Contributions summary:Brad focused on improving the testing infrastructure, including updating test files and fixing issues with websocket tests. They addressed dependency versions and disabled broken tests. The user also made UI improvements by adding the ability to choose different solidity compiler versions and to add/remove peer validators.
integratedethereumblockchainledgerssdk
Consensys/quorum-wizard
Dec 2019 - Apr 2021
Quorum Wizard is a command line tool that allow users to set up a development Quorum network on their local machine in less than 2 minutes.
Contributions:10 releases, 13 reviews, 230 commits in 1 year 4 months
command-line-toolset-uplocal-machinequorumwizard
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