Jake Brady
Senior Software Engineer at GitHub
Greater Phoenix Area United States
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Top SchoolJake Brady is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building resilient web platforms, currently improving availability and developer velocity on GitHub’s App Core team. He blends deep Ruby/Rails and JavaScript expertise with a business and management background honed across GoDaddy and his own consulting work, enabling pragmatic solutions that scale. Jake pairs hands-on technical skill—Postgres, REST APIs, RabbitMQ, RSpec/Jasmine—with a track record of coordinating cross-organizational projects to lift performance and reliability. A lifelong learner and former music professional, he brings uncommon discipline from performance and teaching roles to mentoring engineers and improving developer workflows. Beyond code, he’s an avid trumpet player, soccer fan, and hiker, which informs his collaborative, steady approach to complex problems.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBachelor’s Degree, Music, Bachelor’s Degree, Music at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Github Skills (24)
recurrence-rules10
ruby10
querying10
recurrence10
coverage9
paypal9
payment9
netsuite9
sdk7
restful6
sorbet6
cli5
nested-set5
rubocop4
knife4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
learn-co-students/javascript-fix-this-g-416
Dec 2016 - Sep 2023
Contributions:2 PRs in 6 years 10 months
learn-co-students/angular-e2e-test-lab-v-000
Mar 2016 - Sep 2023
Contributions:2 PRs in 7 years 7 months
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