Bradley Priest
Partner CTO at Neu Ventures
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Top SchoolBradley Priest is a seasoned technology entrepreneur and Partner/CTO with 15 years of experience building and scaling SaaS products from startup to exit. He co-founded and served as CTO of TradeGecko (acquired by Intuit) and later led product and technology at QuickBooks Commerce before joining Neu Ventures to back and build new businesses. A full-stack engineer at heart, Bradley has contributed to notable open-source projects including Ember.js and Ember Data, improving UI components and data adapters used by ambitious web apps. He blends hands-on engineering, product-led leadership, and startup-operating experience across APAC, and his background in psychology informs a pragmatic approach to user-focused design and team dynamics. Notably, his contributions to widely used JavaScript and Ruby libraries reflect a long-term commitment to reliable, well-documented tooling.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Psychology/Physical Sciences, Bachelor of Science Psychology/Physical Sciences at University of Canterbury
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Github Skills (39)
api-rest10
ruby-rails10
devise10
javascript10
ember-data10
api-design10
restful-api10
model-driven10
testing10
data-modeling10
rails10
user-interface10
graphical-user-interface10
ruby10
human-interface10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
fulcrum-agile/fulcrum
Sep 2011 - Mar 2012
An agile project planning tool
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:44 commits, 1 PR in 5 months
Contributions summary:Bradley's contributions primarily involve enhancing the user interface and functionality of the agile project planning tool. They added close buttons and improved the user experience by integrating features like a tag-it input and modified the display of stories. The user also worked on CSV export functionality, and made changes to accommodate a switch to rails 3.1.
agileproject-planningplanning-toolbug-trackerplanning
scambra/devise_invitable
Dec 2012 - May 2018
An invitation strategy for devise
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 3 PRs in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Bradley contributed to the `devise_invitable` gem by implementing and refining features related to invitation acceptance and password reset flows. They addressed edge cases, such as ensuring the invitation token and acceptance timestamps are correctly handled during password resets and invalid acceptances. The user also added functionality to controller actions and ensured that the gem works with different database systems.
railsinvitationrubystrategydevise
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