Bryan Fordham
Staff Engineer at Self Financial, Inc.
Richmond Hill, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolBryan Fordham is a Staff Engineer with over two decades of software experience and a 13-year focused track record building web applications, microservices, plugins, and APIs across industries including telecom, e-commerce, and healthcare. He moves fluidly between Go, Ruby on Rails, Python, PHP, and modern JavaScript frameworks, and has recently been shaping integrations and standalone services—most notably a Zapier app and a dedicated Facebook integration service. Bryan combines hands-on engineering with service design and mentoring, having led teams, onboarded juniors, and standardized development workflows at companies from startups to multi-nationals. As the owner of a freelance shop he’s delivered bespoke Rails backends, CMS plugins, and QuickBooks integrations, consistently leaving clients in a better operational position. He thrives in high-trust, learning-forward environments and pairs domain expertise with pragmatic problem solving to accelerate product delivery. Based in Richmond Hill, Georgia, he also brings formal training in data science and advanced degrees in theology, an uncommon blend that informs his thoughtful approach to engineering and team leadership.
12 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Armstrong State UniversityMaster of Divinity (MDiv) Theology/Theological Studies, Master of Divinity (MDiv) Theology/Theological Studies at Liberty UniversityCertificate Data Science, Certificate Data Science at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
French, Spanish
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Github Skills (24)
logging6
precompiled6
asset-pipeline6
ruby-on-rails6
css6
ruby6
bit3
tor3
encrypt3
security2
desktop2
anonymity2
instant-messaging2
api-client2
multiplatform2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
bfordham/sushidrones
Jan 2014 - Feb 2015
Contributions:23 commits, 2 pushes in 1 year 1 month
bfordham/drone_api
Jun 2013 - Aug 2013
Contributions:15 commits in 2 months
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