Summary
S Brady is an engineering manager based in Seattle with eight years of formal management experience and a decade-plus engineering background building high-availability web applications. He combines hands-on technical leadership—pairing weekly with engineers, reviewing PRs, and critiquing technical designs—with a product-focused mindset honed at Shopify and Highspot. Comfortable across the stack from Linux and MySQL to RESTful APIs and CSS, he has shipped distributed systems serving millions of daily users. He champions autonomous, safety-first teams and uses lightweight process guardrails to accelerate decision-making and iteration. Practiced in Agile, TDD, pair programming, and core OOP principles, he translates architecture-level concerns into actionable backlogs that delight customers. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic, technically curious manager who prefers shipping impactful software over ivory-tower perfection.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Syracuse University