Steve Brudz
Staff Engineer at Big Cartel
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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Top SchoolSteve Brudz is a seasoned staff engineer and engineering leader with over 25 years of experience designing and delivering full-stack, mission-critical systems across domains from scientific data platforms at the Broad Institute to TV scheduling for HBO and telecom billing at Lucent. He blends hands-on implementation in modern JavaScript/TypeScript stacks with architectural leadership, agile coaching, and building healthy engineering cultures that sustain low turnover and predictable delivery. Steve has led teams of dozens, shipped OLAP and LIMS systems supporting millions of data points, and scaled practices like CI/CD and automated testing as first-class project priorities. He pairs deep technical breadth—from backend systems and data warehouses to front-end visualizations and VR experiments—with pragmatic product focus and client-facing consulting. Based in Madison, WI, he continues to drive engineering excellence at Big Cartel after senior roles at Def Method and a history of founding consulting engagements. A less obvious strength is his habit of shipping small open-source experiments (including a geographic VR visualization library) to explore new interaction models and inform production design.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BA Physics, BA Physics at Wesleyan University
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Github Skills (164)
d3-geo10
outlook-web10
dashboard10
postgresql10
gmail10
clojure10
aframe10
data-visualization10
database10
oculus10
mysql10
analytics10
oculus-quest10
slack10
fastest10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
EarthlingInteractive/aframe-geo-projection-component
Dec 2017 - Dec 2018
An A-Frame component for creating maps in VR using d3-geo projections
Contributions:4 releases, 122 commits, 11 PRs in 11 months
d3-geoframegeoa-frameprojections
sbrudz/accelerate-metrics
Jun 2020 - Sep 2021
Tool to calculate Accelerate DevOps metrics
Contributions:3 reviews, 94 commits, 14 PRs in 1 year 3 months
devopsdevops-metricscalculatemetricsmonitoring
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