Brad Rydzewski
SVP & General Manager at Harness
Dublin, Ohio, United States
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Brad Rydzewski is a seasoned engineering leader, founder and investor with 15 years building developer-facing infrastructure and commercial open-source products. He founded Drone, a Docker- and Go-based CI platform adopted by major companies and later acquired by Harness, where he now serves as SVP & General Manager after leading product and engineering as VP and Distinguished Engineer. Brad blends hands-on backend, CLI and front-end work—contributing to Drone’s UI, plugins, Docker publishing plugin and CLI for local builds and privileged containers—with strategic product leadership. He has a track record of shipping reliable, scalable CI/CD tooling and automating complex workflows from his GE Capital days to enterprise collaboration at Cisco. Based in Dublin, Ohio, he pairs technical depth with entrepreneurial grit and a subtle focus on clear documentation and developer experience.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
French, Commerce, French, Commerce at Ecole Supérieure de Management de l'EntrepriseBachelor of Science, Internation Business, French, Information Systems, Bachelor of Science, Internation Business, French, Information Systems at University of Dayton
English, French
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Github Skills (46)
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apidoc10
webhooks10
technical-writing10
css10
command-line-interface10
drones10
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Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
drone/drone-ui
Jun 2016 - Jul 2021
Front-end for the Drone continuous integration server
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 336 commits, 109 PRs in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Brad's commits focused on updating the front-end UI for the Drone continuous integration server. These updates included modifying components, such as Secrets.vue and Settings.vue, to include new features like adding a pull request checkbox for secrets, which shows the user is working with the application's form capabilities. Further commits involved modifying the Home.vue and Build.vue files to display the build activity feed and fix issues with the UI layout. The user also implemented modifications to the styling using CSS.
continuous-integrationfrontend
drone-plugins/drone-docker
May 2015 - Jan 2022
Drone plugin for publishing Docker images
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:16 reviews, 164 commits, 88 PRs in 6 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Brad primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of a Docker plugin designed for publishing Docker images within a Drone CI/CD pipeline. Their work included implementing features like Docker daemon management, image building and pushing, and integrating with registry authentication. They also improved the plugin's functionality by adding features like storage driver configuration, DNS settings, and multi-tag builds, demonstrating a focus on optimizing the build and deployment process.
docker-imagedronedrone-plugin
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