Summary
Braiden Judd is a Staff Engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native systems and media infrastructure, currently leading backend efforts at Stripe from Melbourne. His career spans senior engineering and management roles across AWS and Amazon Advertising, where he delivered large-scale services for video recommendation, transcoding, delivery and advertising platforms. Early experience as a cloud consultant and NetApp storage tech lead gives him a rare blend of deep infrastructure, storage and networking expertise alongside modern service-oriented architecture. He excels at designing automation and operational tooling that smooths migrations to AWS and drives developer productivity at scale. Known for moving between hands-on engineering and people leadership, he brings practical, security-minded solutions to complex distributed systems problems.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Information Technology Software Development, Information Technology Software Development at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)