Brad Root
Principal Software Engineer at Noun Project
Irvine, California, United States
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Top SchoolBrad Root is a Principal Software Engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building and operating scalable Python backends, Swift frontends, and Linux-based cloud infrastructure. At The Noun Project he has led API, sysops, and security efforts for Lingo—overhauling auth, migrating search to OpenSearch, integrating SSO (SAML/SCIM), and guiding systems through SOC 2–grade changes. His background spans retail ops and logistics where he designed high-usage intranet systems and inventory tools that materially reduced shrinkage, giving him a pragmatic product-minded approach to engineering. An active open-source tinkerer for Apple platforms, he blends full-stack craftsmanship with ops discipline and a knack for clear customer-facing documentation. Off hours he balances code with a literal unicycle habit—proof that he values both technical rigor and creative balance.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Accounting and Business/Management, Accounting and Business/Management at Cerritos College
English
Stackoverflow
495reputation
313kreached
8answers
5questions
Github Skills (200)
displays10
menubar10
menu10
pihole10
animation10
playing10
swift10
opt10
screensaver10
clock10
tvos10
spritekit10
ipad10
adventure10
artificial-life10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
amiantos/textlike
Feb 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:1 release, 7 commits, 5 pushes in 1 year
amiantos/aeongarden
Mar 2018 - Feb 2020
Aeon Garden is an artificial life toy for Apple devices built with SpriteKit
Contributions:212 commits, 24 PRs, 180 pushes in 2 years
iostoygardenartificialmacos
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