Bradley Chase
Member Of Technical Staff at Unitary Foundation
United States
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Top SchoolBradley Chase is a quantitative researcher and software engineer with 13 years of experience building high-reliability systems for finance and blockchain. He has led cross-functional teams at Ripple—rising from senior engineer to VP of Engineering—where he combined applied math, data science, and product leadership to tackle liquidity, DeFi, and tokenization problems. Technically hands-on, Bradley contributed to rippled (the XRP Ledger daemon) by expanding testing and automation infrastructure, improving edge-case coverage and code quality for a widely used open-source blockchain. His background spans low-latency HFT systems at Quantlab, production-grade simulations of consensus protocols, and full-stack tooling for analytics and visualization. Bradley holds advanced training in physics and brings a research-driven approach to practical engineering and product decisions.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BSBA Physics Computer Science, BSBA Physics Computer Science at Rice UniversityPhD Physics, PhD Physics at The University of New Mexico
Github Skills (9)
unit-testing10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
blockchain10
test-automation10
testing10
xrp9
cpp9
cryptography7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
XRPLF/rippled
Sep 2016 - Nov 2018
Decentralized cryptocurrency blockchain daemon implementing the XRP Ledger protocol in C++
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:2 releases, 14 reviews, 73 commits in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Bradley primarily focused on expanding and enhancing the testing infrastructure within the rippled repository, which involves decentralized cryptocurrency blockchain implementation. Their contributions include the development and expansion of unit tests, covering a wide array of functionalities. This work improves the codebase by testing for edge cases, malformed data, and expanding test coverage to include quality and sequence changes in trustline operations. They also made contributions to code-coverage, ensuring high-quality and reliable software development.
cryptographycppxrpldaemonblockchain
bachase/rippled
Nov 2016 - Mar 2019
Ripple peer-to-peer network daemon
Contributions:1 review, 786 commits, 9 PRs in 2 years 4 months
peer-networkp2pdaemonpeer-to-peerripple
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