Richard Bradley
Senior Software Engineer at Fastly
Newport, Wales, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Bradley is a senior software engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating cloud-native systems, currently contributing to Fastly after a long tenure at Joyent focused on object storage (Manta) and container orchestration (Triton). He specializes in Node.js, Rust, and Go, with a strong emphasis on maintainable code, performance analysis, and distributed systems architecture. His background spans hands-on support, global production deployments, and research-driven product work, giving him a pragmatic view of reliability and incident response. Based in Newport, Wales, he brings systems-level debugging instincts from early roles in administration and support into modern service engineering. An interest in performance and observable, auditable systems often guides his choices toward efficient, production-ready implementations.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computing Computer Technology/Computer Systems Technology, BSc Computing Computer Technology/Computer Systems Technology at University of South Wales
Github Skills (65)
storage10
scalable9
high-availability9
leader9
orm-library8
database8
leader-election8
nodejs8
postgresql7
fault-tolerance7
sql7
api7
mysql7
child-process7
fault7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
chudley/manatee
Nov 2016 - Jan 2020
Automated fault monitoring and leader-election system for strongly-consistent, highly-available writes to PostgreSQL (Joyent SDC, Manta).
Contributions:48 pushes, 16 branches in 3 years 2 months
sdcfaultleadermantaconsistent
chudley/sdc-manta
Oct 2016 - Nov 2019
SDC tools for deploying and managing a Manta.
Contributions:77 pushes, 22 branches in 3 years 1 month
deployingmantasdc
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