Brad Olson
Senior Platforms Engineer
Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrad Olson is a Senior Platforms Engineer with 14 years of distributed-workplace experience building and migrating high-usage APIs across clouds, orchestrators, and languages. He brings deep full-stack fluency—TypeScript, JavaScript, Go, Python—and production experience with Node.js, React, C#, and Ruby, plus a rare breadth from embedded systems to cloud services earned coding since 1975. As a co-founder and software lead he blends hands-on engineering with product thinking, while at Kindrid he helped scale a startup through zero-downtime migrations, testing, and self-healing deployments that sharply reduced support load. He favors clear specifications and acceptance testing, reads other people’s code well, and prioritizes sane, repeatable processes that make back-end work pleasant for front-end teams. Based in Michigan, he pairs technical depth with domain experience in finance, payments, and linguistic processing, and has repeatedly delivered resilient systems during rapid growth and acquisitions.
14 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BA, English Language and Literature, General, BA, English Language and Literature, General at Northwestern College, Orange City, IowaMaster of Divinity (MDiv), Bible/Biblical Studies, Master of Divinity (MDiv), Bible/Biblical Studies at Western Theological Seminary
Github Skills (120)
programming-language10
interpreter10
compiler10
ruby-wrapper10
zig10
utility10
toolchain10
server10
monitoring9
browser9
gatsby9
golang9
package-management9
api-platform9
python9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
kindrid/gotest
Feb 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:8 releases, 23 PRs, 74 pushes in 7 months
golangassertionstestingvernaculargo-testing
un-clever/cli-library
Jun 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:30 PRs, 130 pushes, 62 branches in 9 months
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