Drew Bragg
Senior Software Engineer at Podia
Warrington Township, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolDrew Bragg is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building full-stack web applications, currently shaping product and engineering at Podia. He specializes in Ruby on Rails, Vue.js, modern JavaScript, and PostgreSQL, and is actively expanding into DevOps, Go, and service workers. Drew has a strong testing and QA mindset—evidenced by contributions improving test coverage and formatter reliability in notable Ruby tooling like prettier-plugin-ruby and a Prism Ruby parser. He also contributes to UI tooling for Rails through the Lookbook project, handling both frontend and backend fixes that improved cross-version compatibility. A former staff engineer at Within3, Drew blends hands-on coding with mentorship and system-level thinking honed across healthcare and SaaS domains. Outside work he hosts a technical podcast, signaling a commitment to sharing knowledge and staying engaged with the developer community.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Psychology, Psychology at Bucks County Community CollegeNanodegree, Front-End Web Development, Nanodegree, Front-End Web Development at UdacityHigh Performance Automotive Technology, 3.3, High Performance Automotive Technology, 3.3 at Automotive Training Center
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Github Skills (17)
parserator10
parser10
testing10
rails10
ruby10
pretier10
prettify10
ruby-on-rails10
test-automation10
ui-components9
component-kit9
viewcomponent8
javascript7
front-end-development6
css6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
lookbook-hq/lookbook
Apr 2022 - Dec 2022
A UI development environment for Ruby on Rails apps ✨
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 4 PRs, 11 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Drew primarily contributed to the Lookbook project by addressing compatibility issues and improving code quality. They ensured correct path handling, updated code to be compatible with Ruby 2.5, and refactored code by replacing deprecated functions. The user also merged updates from the main branch, and updated the application controller, demonstrating full-stack involvement by modifying both frontend and backend code, including the CSS and overall application structure.
ruby-on-railslookbookrailsviewcomponentsruby
ruby/prism
Dec 2022 - Jan 2023
Prism Ruby parser
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:3 reviews, 5 commits, 1 PR in 17 days
Contributions summary:Drew primarily focused on enhancing the test suite for the Prism Ruby parser. Their contributions involved adding new tests for string literal parsing, specifically addressing different string notation types (%, %q, %Q) with and without interpolation. They expanded the test coverage by including various characters and delimiters for string literals, ensuring the parser's robustness and compliance with Ruby syntax. This work indicates a strong focus on testing the core functionality of the parser.
yet-anotherrubyparser
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