Nick Bradford
Software Engineer at Pioneer Fund
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolNick Bradford is a software engineer and founder-focused builder with 11 years of experience, currently leading development of Cursor’s cloud AI coding agents after co-founding and serving as CTO of Ellipsis (YC W24). He blends hands-on systems and ML work—ranging from mechanistic interpretability at Redwood Research to building large-scale LLM agents for codebase migrations at Grit—and has production experience extracting tabular data from images as an engineering manager. Earlier roles in quantitative trading and low-latency systems (Bridgewater, Quantlab) give him a strong foundation in algorithms and performance engineering. Based in New York, he also advises startups as a Venture Partner at Pioneer Fund, applying founder-stage product and technical judgment to investments. Notably, his career threads research-grade curiosity with rapid startup execution, shipping developer-facing AI tooling that lives inside repos.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
W24, W24 at Y CombinatorBachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (102)
gateway10
windows-app9
music9
copilot9
vertex-ai9
langchain9
llm9
database-driver9
active-window9
openai9
anthropic9
azure-openai9
database8
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
nsbradford/VimGPT
Sep 2023 - Sep 2024
Experimental LLM agent/toolkit with direct Vim access using neovim/pynvim
Contributions:5 PRs, 94 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year
aigptllmneovimpython
nsbradford/MusicVizML
May 2016 - Apr 2020
Originally analyzing song structure, now just visualizing songs
Contributions:24 commits, 16 pushes in 4 years
analyzingsongpythonsongsmachine-learning
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