Bradley Wright
Director Of Engineering, Growth at Shopify
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolBradley Wright is a seasoned technology leader with 17 years of experience building and scaling web-first engineering organisations, currently directing Growth engineering at Shopify. He combines hands-on full‑stack chops—evident from open-source contributions to projects like hogan.js and UI work on the popular Solarized Emacs theme—with senior strategic leadership across product, design, and platform teams. Known as a servant leader, he prioritises cloud‑first, service‑based architectures and common platforms to drive velocity and economies of scale while pushing decisions to the point of impact. Bradley excels at coaching cross-functional teams, enforcing pragmatic engineering culture, and having candid conversations that protect long‑term delivery and inclusivity. Notably, his background spans startup CTO experience at Pollen and mission‑critical public sector platform work at GOV.UK, reflecting comfort shipping both high-growth consumer products and large governmental services.
17 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma (with Distinction) Information Technology (Web Site Production & Management), Diploma (with Distinction) Information Technology (Web Site Production & Management) at TAFE, Sydney Institute of Technology
Github Skills (23)
mustache10
javascript10
compile-time10
compilation10
ui-customization10
template-engine10
emacs-lisp10
ruby10
jekyll10
compile10
compiler10
web-development10
templating10
command-line-interface9
git9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
sellout/emacs-color-theme-solarized
Apr 2012 - Feb 2016
Emacs highlighting using Ethan Schoonover’s Solarized color scheme
Role in this project:
UI Designer
UI DesignerContributions:9 commits, 7 PRs, 7 comments in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Bradley primarily contributes to the styling of the Emacs color theme, "Solarized". Their commits focus on adding and modifying faces within the theme definition file to support various modes and features within Emacs. This involves defining and adjusting color schemes for elements such as whitespace, smartparens, diff output from tools like Magit, and the `company-mode` tooltip, enhancing the visual experience and usability of the editor. Furthermore, they added bg versions for `term-color-N` faces.
emacs
alphagov/government-service-design-manual
Feb 2013 - Feb 2016
Government Service Design Manual
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:55 commits, 16 PRs, 15 pushes in 3 years
Contributions summary:Bradley primarily worked on improving the functionality and maintainability of the "Government Service Design Manual" repository. Their contributions include refactoring the code to use the first paragraph as a search summary and updating the Git submodules to ensure dependencies are up to date, addressing asset compilation issues. They also removed redundant code and corrected a footer template issue by applying Welsh footer changes. The user's work seems focused on improving the site's build process, content indexing, and overall user experience.
manualgovernmentservice-designgovuk
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