Summary
Brad Sanders is a software engineer with over a decade of professional experience and more than four years focused on building cloud-backed, scalable web applications, currently contributing as Software Engineer II at Etsy in New York City. He has a strong full-stack background in Rails and React/Redux, with a proven track record of driving zero-downtime migrations, performance improvements, and data-driven product features. At Hired, he led a team to architect a scalable ETL-to-Postgres pipeline using AWS S3 and automated twice-daily migrations, and he mentored junior engineers to raise team velocity. He also re-architected legacy apps into single-page React experiences and volunteered for on-call responsibilities, demonstrating both delivery focus and operational ownership. Beyond commercial work, he built a solo Rails project to raise awareness for SUDC, showing a commitment to meaningful, mission-driven engineering.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Chemistry, Bachelor’s Degree, Chemistry at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
English