Brad Root
Founder & Lead 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.
10 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
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Github Skills (186)
menubar10
distributed-computing10
swiftdata10
pihole10
spotify10
animation10
api10
swift10
opt10
music10
text-generation10
screensaver10
clock10
tvos10
windows-screensaver10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
amiantos/multiclock-playdate
May 2022 - Sep 2022
Contributions:45 commits, 9 pushes in 3 months
numutracker/numutracker_api
Jun 2018 - Jan 2020
Numu Tracker API - Numu is an service for keeping track of new and old releases by your favorite musicians.
Contributions:29 PRs, 289 pushes, 28 branches in 1 year 8 months
apitrackermusiciansexpressnodejs
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