Bradley Garrod
Senior Software Engineer I at American Express
Brighton, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBradley Garrod is a Senior Software Engineer with eight years of hands-on experience modernising large-scale platforms, currently advancing loyalty systems at American Express with Go, Docker and Kubernetes. A University of Southampton MEng graduate, he began programming in secondary school and now moves fluidly between Java, JavaScript, Haskell and Go while championing observability with Prometheus and Grafana. He has interned at Pexip and American Express, building a cross-platform .NET CLI and contributing to distributed microservice frameworks early in his career. An active open-source contributor, he improved usability and documentation for the widely used glab GitLab CLI by adding help pages and alias support. Based in Brighton, he combines pragmatic engineering with mentorship experience, routinely encouraging documentation and knowledge-sharing within teams. Colleagues describe him as a caffeine-fuelled technologist who enjoys turning API schemas into reliable developer tools.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng Computer Science, Master of Engineering - MEng Computer Science at University of Southampton
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Github Skills (11)
golang10
command-line-interface10
gitlab10
go10
go-application10
go-language10
command-line10
cli10
git6
ubuntu6
server6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
profclems/glab
Aug 2020 - Jan 2022
The GitLab CLI tool. Archived: now officially adopted by GitLab as the official CLI tool and maintained at https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cli. See https://github.com/profclems/glab/issues/983
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 4 PRs, 7 comments in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Bradley's primary contribution focused on enhancing the `glab` CLI tool's functionality by adding help pages for various subcommands, particularly for `issue`, `mr`, `pipeline`, and `repo`. These help pages provided crucial documentation and usage instructions for users of the CLI. Furthermore, the user integrated support for command aliases and the `-h` switch for help, improving the tool's usability and command-line experience.
golanggitlab-apigitlab-ciglab-cligitlab-cli
BreD1810/Advent-of-Code
Dec 2017 - Dec 2024
Contributions:101 pushes, 12 branches in 7 years 1 month
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