Ell Bradshaw
Senior Software Engineer at TailorMed
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolEll Bradshaw is a Senior Software Engineer in Portland with 14 years building full-stack systems that span startups to enterprise-scale traffic and analytics platforms. Comfortable from firmware to frontend, they helped grow SERPs.com from idea to a 400-customer PaaS and later worked on Citrix/Cedexis systems that made billions of routing decisions daily. Currently at TailorMed after a brief sabbatical, Ell is an active open-source contributor with meaningful work in projects like BookWyrm, Sinon.js, Ember.js and qutebrowser—bringing practical improvements to APIs, testing infrastructure, and Unicode handling. Known for shipping reliable systems, mentoring junior hires, and balancing product thinking with solid engineering, they combine deep operational experience with a knack for clear documentation and testability.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Seattle Pacific University
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Github Skills (39)
unit-testing10
cakephp10
javascript10
test-driven-design10
spy10
pytest10
qt10
sinon10
python10
stub10
stubs10
django10
javascript-framework10
activitypub10
pyqt10
Programming languages (30)
Github contributions (5)
sinonjs/sinon
Nov 2021 - Jan 2022
Test spies, stubs and mocks for JavaScript.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:6 reviews, 19 commits, 9 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Ell primarily contributed to enhancing the test suite and associated scripts for the Sinon.js library. Their work involved fixing bugs in existing tests, improving the assertion messages, and ensuring the tests were idempotent. They also refactored and updated the testing infrastructure, including modifying scripts related to deployment and versioning. The contributions reflect a focus on improving the reliability and maintainability of the test suite.
avastubxmlhttprequeststubsjest
bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm
Jul 2020 - Nov 2022
Social reading and reviewing, decentralized with ActivityPub
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:41 reviews, 112 commits, 34 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Ell primarily worked on implementing new features and improving existing ones related to the book-sharing social network. This included adding functionality for progress updates, enabling users to track their reading progress. They also made changes to the UI with display of book progress, and added database models to support this. The user also contributed to the back-end by creating API endpoints.
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