Fred Drake
Founder at Brainrush AI
Tampa, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolFred Drake is a seasoned engineering leader and founder with 12 years of experience building scalable, cloud-native systems and AI-driven products from Tampa, Florida. He currently leads Brainrush AI, designing an adaptive learning platform that combines production-grade ML, full-stack architecture, and teacher/parent-focused UX to personalize K-12 and college education. Previously he scaled global engineering teams at Formula.Monks, delivered multi-million dollar defect-reduction dashboards for enterprise clients, and established CI/CD and SRE practices at Centene to modernize mission-critical platforms. Fred blends hands-on coding and architecture with people development—mentoring dozens of lead engineers and shifting teams to developer-centric, continuous-release workflows. His background spans Java/.NET stacks, containerized Kubernetes deployments, and analytics-driven product decisions, reflecting a rare mix of technical depth and operational impact. He favors pragmatic, evidence-based solutions and has a track record of turning legacy systems into measurable business value.
12 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at Saint Louis University
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Github Skills (59)
docker10
linux10
infrastructure10
ansible10
configurations10
kubernetes9
api9
tensorboard9
neovim9
gomoku8
monte-carlo-tree-search8
lua8
vim8
nixos8
nix8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
fred-drake/dotfiles
Jan 2023 - Sep 2024
Contributions:200 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
fred-drake/infrastructure
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
My home infrastructure configurations, utilizing ansible, docker and kubernetes
Contributions:1599 commits, 254 PRs, 2237 pushes in 1 year 4 months
ansibleinfrastructuredockerdocker-ansiblekubernetes
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