Russ Bradberry
VP, Data Platforms And Services
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorRuss Bradberry is a seasoned data and software engineering executive with 15+ years of hands-on experience and over 25 years of technical background culminating in senior leadership roles across SaaS, analytics, and distributed databases. Currently VP of Data Platforms and Services at Taxwell, he previously built and scaled data platforms at Thrasio and co-founded SimpleReach, where he grew a single-instance system into a distributed pipeline handling billions of events and petabytes of data. He blends strategic, bottom-up leadership with deep engineering chops—mentoring teams, driving single-source-of-truth data warehouses, and operationalizing analytics to support rapid M&A-driven growth. An active backend contributor, his open-source work includes maintaining a Node.js StatsD client that improved memory stability and metric features, showing his commitment to production reliability. Comfortable in both startup and high-growth environments, he pairs navy-trained discipline with a pragmatic focus on measurable business outcomes.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (12)
nodejs10
javascript10
statsd10
testing9
redirect9
chai9
udp8
sql-server6
windows6
asp-net6
desktop6
java6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
sivy/node-statsd
Feb 2013 - Dec 2014
node.js client for Etsy'd StatsD server
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:33 commits, 6 comments in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Russ primarily focused on developing and maintaining a Node.js client for the StatsD server. Their work included refactoring the codebase to eliminate memory leaks, improving initialization parameters, and adding features for prefixing and suffixing metrics. They standardized function calls, added unit tests, and implemented array support for metrics, improving functionality and ensuring future code stability.
js-clientnode-jsnodejsstatsdimpress
simplereach/timeutils
Apr 2014 - Aug 2015
Contributions:18 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 1 year 3 months
golang
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