Brady Madden
Software Engineer at Palantir Technologies
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolBrady Madden is a software engineer with a decade of experience building user-facing systems and collaboration tools, currently at Palantir in Washington, D.C. He has held senior roles at Replit and Meta, focusing on real-time editors, multiplayer workspaces, and community integrity systems. Brady contributes to notable open-source projects like Excalidraw, where he improved canvas interactions, export flows, and shareable links to refine the drawing UX. His background blends front-end expertise with product-minded engineering, enabling fast iteration on complex interactive UIs. A University of Virginia CS graduate who began in GIS and STEM education, he brings both technical depth and a knack for making tools more intuitive for broad audiences.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Centreville High SchoolBachelor of Science Cum Laude Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Cum Laude Computer Science at University of Virginia
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Github Skills (10)
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
react10
typescript-types10
canvas9
diagram8
collaboration8
ui-design8
whiteboard7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
excalidraw/excalidraw
Jan 2020 - Jan 2020
Virtual whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn like diagrams
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 6 PRs, 5 pushes in 16 days
Contributions summary:Brady primarily contributed to fixing UI/UX issues related to the drawing and resizing of elements within the Excalidraw application. They implemented changes to canvas dimensions and element positioning to resolve drag-related bugs. The commits show work on integrating and improving shareable links, as well as enhancements to the export functionality, including the addition of the export to backend feature. The changes involved modifications to the React components and interactions with the canvas rendering logic.
diagramsdrawnhand-drawnproductivitycollaboration
bradymadden97/cs4753-project
Aug 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:4 releases, 3 PRs, 157 pushes in 2 months
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