Bradford Fults
Chief Operating Officer
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBradford Fults is a seasoned software leader and operator with 25+ years writing software and 18+ years leading engineering and product organizations across startups and large enterprises. Currently COO at Bonsai, he has repeatedly scaled teams and platforms—most recently overseeing 13 teams and 115+ engineers at SailPoint and delivering consumer hardware/software products that reached millions of units at Under Armour. He blends hands-on polyglot engineering (Ruby, JavaScript, Python, Java, PHP, Perl, with recent interest in Elixir and Elm) with a pragmatic emphasis on loose coupling, robust interfaces, and developer-friendly APIs. A founder and former CEO who still codes to learn, Bradford brings rare empathy for people operations alongside deep experience in platform reliability, connected devices, and product-driven growth. He’s known for building high-trust teams, negotiating complex vendor and manufacturing deals, and turning product vision into repeatable delivery models.
18 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
90reputation
7kreached
3answers
1question
Github Skills (58)
slack10
text-editor9
backend9
code-editor8
query-language8
tree-sitter8
hubot8
rust-lang8
multiplayer8
coffeescript7
django7
graphql6
activerecord6
syntax-highlighting6
activemodel6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
h3h/typogruby
Apr 2020 - Oct 2024
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 6 months
djangotypographypythontypogrify
h3h/leveling-matrix
Jan 2020 - Dec 2020
Open-source software engineer leveling matrix of expectations.
Contributions:5 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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