Cole Bradley
Software Engineer at Meta
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCole Bradley is a seasoned software engineer in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building web, backend, and mobile products at companies like Meta, PayPal, and Uber. He blends front-end expertise in JavaScript, React, and React Native with backend skills in GraphQL and Ruby on Rails, and has led full rewrites and onboarding initiatives that measurably improved conversion metrics. Cole has a track record of shipping reliable architecture—designing core service models, CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring—while driving mobile scalability and cross-platform libraries. An active open-source contributor, he improved Rails parameter validation and type coercion to handle complex data cases like BigDecimal and formatted currencies. With dual degrees in Computer Science and Philosophy, he combines technical rigor with clear product thinking to simplify complex flows and accelerate feature development.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at Webster UniversityBachelor's Degree, Philosophy, Bachelor's Degree, Philosophy at Rhodes College
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Github Skills (20)
ruby-rails10
conversions10
data-conversion10
rspec10
bigdecimal10
rails10
validation10
ruby10
type-conversion10
convertion10
validate10
react6
jsx6
xcode6
bitbucket6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
nicolasblanco/rails_param
Oct 2014 - Jan 2015
Parameter Validation & Type Coercion for Rails
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 9 PRs, 4 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Cole focused on enhancing the `rails_param` library by adding features for type coercion and validation of parameters in a Rails application. Their contributions include implementing BigDecimal conversion functionality, enabling the handling of formatted currency strings, and supporting nested attribute validation. The user also added comprehensive tests to ensure the accuracy and reliability of the new features, covering various scenarios for data type conversions and validations.
type-coercionvalidationparameter-validationrailsparameter
lendup/react-native-cross-platform-text
Aug 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:43 commits, 4 PRs, 2 pushes in 26 days
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