Bradford Stephens is a serial founder and engineering leader with 16 years building high-throughput distributed systems, AI platforms, and cloud migrations that scale from startups to Fortune 500s. He founded Square Hammer Labs to turn robot incidents into reusable failure intelligence, applying decades of experience in distributed telemetry, LLM-driven automation, and production reliability. At Salesforce he led the Hyperforce public-cloud migration that unlocked $2.5B in revenue growth, and later at ServiceTitan he cut deployment cycles from months to an hour while deploying LLM agents across teams. He combines hands-on systems design (Spire DB, event-routing engines processing billions of events) with board-level strategy, seed investing in AI and supply-chain platforms, and a knack for turning operational pain points into product-led businesses. Equally comfortable in Clojure and large-scale cloud stacks, he’s as focused on compounding lessons across fleets of robots as he is on accelerating time-to-value for enterprise customers. Based in New York, he pairs technical breadth with repeatable go-to-market execution that consistently produces measurable business outcomes.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science, Political Science, B.S., Computer Science, Political Science at University of North Florida
Contributions:1 release, 14 PRs, 76 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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Bradford Stephens - Chief Executive Officer at Square Hammer Labs