Bradley Jones
Senior Software Engineer at Anchore
Ashford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolBradley Jones is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building reliable back-end systems and improving user-facing dashboards across cloud and open-source projects. Currently at Anchore after a decade at Cisco, he brings deep expertise in networking and cloud infrastructure, evidenced by substantive contributions to OpenStack Neutron and Horizon where he improved networking reliability and created interactive quota visualizations. He has a practical track record fixing subtle, low-level bugs—ranging from hashseed-related flaky tests to DHCP MTU handling—and enhancing UX in projects like the khal calendar CLI. Comfortable across the stack, Bradley blends QA rigor with full-stack feature work, making systems both more robust and more usable. Based in Ashford, England, he pairs a BSc in Computer Science with a pragmatic, detail-oriented approach that surfaces non-obvious correctness and usability issues before they reach production.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
The Sandon SchoolBachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at The University of Kent
Github Skills (25)
unit-testing10
javascript10
python10
calendars10
css10
terminal-emulator10
terminal-application10
ui-design10
networking10
icalendar10
openstack10
front-end-development10
d3js10
pytest9
urwid9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/horizon
May 2013 - Aug 2016
OpenStack Dashboard (Horizon). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:31 commits in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Bradley primarily focused on enhancing the OpenStack Horizon dashboard's user interface and improving the user experience. Their contributions involved integrating the d3.js library to create interactive quota summary graphs and progress bars, which visually indicated resource usage. Furthermore, they addressed bugs related to the visual presentation of quotas and implemented styling changes to alert the user when quotas are nearly reached or exceeded. These changes aimed to improve the user's understanding of resource allocation and limits within the OpenStack environment.
horizonopendevopenstackdashboardenterprise
openstack/neutron
Aug 2014 - Feb 2015
OpenStack Networking (Neutron). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:5 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Bradley primarily focused on improving the reliability and stability of the OpenStack Neutron networking project. Their work included fixing unit tests that were failing due to randomized hashseeds, ensuring tests could pass consistently. They also addressed issues related to the ordering of elements in sets and the handling of MTU settings in DHCP configurations, demonstrating an understanding of low-level networking details within the OpenStack ecosystem. Additionally, they fixed several minor formatting issues in error messages.
ospfopenflownetwork-automationnetworkingsdn
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