👔 resume

Brad Garropy
817-266-5629
bradgarropy@gmail.com
Austin, Texas

Summary

16 years of engineering experience across 5 companies
Led multiple teams to build applications from scratch
Specialize in frontend development with React and TypeScript
Maintain many open source projects and repositories
Create videos, podcasts, and streams to educate others

Education

The University of Texas at Austin
2010 | Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Technologies

Software


Languages	TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Bash, Markdown, YAML, TOML
Runtimes	Node, Deno, Bun
Frontend	React, Remix, Next, Svelte, SvelteKit, Astro, Gatsby, Redux, Vite, esbuild, Webpack
Backend	Serverless, Webhooks, REST, GraphQL, Express, Fastify, Prisma
Testing	Vitest, Playwright, Jest, Cypress, Mock Service Worker, Storybook

Tools


AI	OpenCode, Copilot, Windsurf, MCP
Version Control	GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab
Continuous Integration	GitHub Actions, Bitbucket Pipelines, Travis CI, Jenkins
Cloud	Amazon Web Services, Cloudflare, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure
Hosting	Vercel, Netlify, Cloudflare, Fly, Render, Heroku
Databases	PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, D1, MongoDB, Redis, Firestore
Infrastructure	Terraform, Puppet, Artifactory
Monitoring	Sentry, SignalFX, Splunk, OpsGenie, Pager Duty, New Relic, Amplitude
Development Lifecycle	JIRA, GitHub Projects
Design	Figma

Work Experience

Cloudflare | Senior Frontend Engineer
May 2025 - Present

Agent Package Manager

Built a package manager for distributing AI agents, skills, and commands
Architected a monorepo including a UI, CLI, and MCP server
Developed with Cloudflare Workers, React Router, and D1
Used by 8 teams with over 170 packages

Conductor

Designed an AI orchestration agent for dashboard development
Leverages specialized subagents for planning, development, review, publishing, testing, and learning
Built human in the loop approval gates
Automates git operations Jira tickets, and pull requests
Improves itself after each run

Authorization Errors

Reduced client authorization errors in dashboard by 50%
Led a team of 3 engineers and collaborated with access management team
Created authorization aware React hooks and components
Dramatically improved unauthorized user experience

Dashboard Navigation

Led a team of 4 engineers to build new navigation
Worked with product and design
Rolled out under a feature flag and is now default
Received positive customer feedback on social channels

Stripe | Senior Frontend Developer
August 2024 - April 2025

Link Modal Redesign

Implemented a new Link entry point from the Payment Element
Showed measurable increase to Link conversion rates
Led a team of two developers to implement testing infrastructure
Built with Playwright and Jest for test libraries
Drastically simplified test setup and mocking
Created a Splunk dashboard for monitoring rollout health

Raycast Stripe Extension

Developed a command that automates filling out a Stripe checkout form
Includes all possible Stripe test cards
Saves over 5,000 developer hours per year
Implemented with React, TypeScript, and the Raycast library

Atlassian | Senior Software Engineer
October 2021 - August 2024

Notion Importer OAuth Flow

Designed and implemented a Notion OAuth integration for Confluence
Drastically reduced the number of clicks for authentication
Unblocked team for general availability release
Used postMessage for cross window communication

Confluence Observatory

Application to generate SignalFX dashboards and monitor alerts for all Confluence services and APIs
Built with Remix, Tailwind, Vitest, Mock Service Worker, Playwright
Led and mentored a team of three developers to build the application
Stored dashboard configuration in PostgreSQL and accessed with Prisma
Generated dashboards with Terraform based on user configuration

Confluence Task Dashboard

Dashboard to monitor health and metrics of 330+ million daily asynchronous tasks that power Confluence
Built with Remix, Tailwind, Vitest, Mock Service Worker, and Playwright
Proposed and implemented the application architecture
Led and mentored a team of two developers to build the application
Wrote continuous integration with Bitbucket Pipelines and Spinnaker deploys
Integrated the application with services like Sentry, SonarQube, Splunk, and Launch Darkly
Leveraged the Atlassian component library for UI elements

Trello Developer CLI

Standardized and extensible CLI tool across all Trello teams
Built with Node, TypeScript, Commander, and esbuild
Integrated analytics and error reporting to track developer productivity
Compiled discovered commands on the fly with esbuild

Trello Web Platform

Deployed and monitored production releases to ensure incident free deployments
Created code generators for components, tests, stories, and packages
Implemented custom eslint rules to enforce best practices
Majorly contributed to converting JavaScript to TypeScript
Wrote documentation and guides for frontend contributors

Adobe | Senior Frontend Developer
July 2020 - October 2021

Magento Storefront Eventing Platform

Platform which leverages a common data layer to collect storefront events
Led the effort to refactor storefront event gathering to an open source implementation
Collaborated with frontend, backend, core, and data engineers to architect the solution
Created two open source libraries
- Magento Storefront Events SDK
- Magento Storefront Event Collector
Solution works across monolithic, PWA, and headless storefronts

Magento Live Search

Lead frontend developer, joined just after proof of concept was started
Made React storefront UI components to display results in the search bar and on the search results page
Built a React admin UI for configuring search facets and results
Created a Magento extension to load the storefront and admin UI
Implemented testing and continuous integration and deployment for all projects

Adobe | Frontend Developer
April 2019 - July 2020

Magento Product Recommendations

Lead frontend developer from first proof of concept to release
Created a Chrome extension to test initial feasibility
Implemented a JavaScript SDK for the backend API
Built a React admin UI for configuring recommendations
Created shopper event tracking mechanism to track recommendations performance
Made a Magento extension to load the admin UI
Implemented testing and continuous integration and deployment for all projects
Communicated directly with customers to help with onboarding and bugs during early access program

Leadership

Led and spoke at the Adobe Frontend Guild
Mentored two junior developers on a bi-weekly basis
Ran team meetings (standup, retrospectives, demos)
Led a Hackathon team to federate our GraphQL APIs

Dell | Server Software Release Engineer
February 2014 - April 2019

Build Verification Test (BVT) Lead

Guided the firmware development organization on automated testing best practices
Integrated testing into the continuous integration workflow
Enforced buildly and nightly testing on all releases
Led a team of five contractors to test more in depth issues
Weekly interlocks on automated testing status with developers
Managed the entire stack supporting development testing

Modular Automated Test Framework (MATF)

Python test framework distributed used by the server firmware development teams
Supported four products, over 300 developers, and over 50 product releases
Developers contributed over 20,000 test cases
Created libraries for all supported platforms to update, restart, gather logs, etc
Gave knowledge sharing talks on test case development and tool usage
Enabled performance testing, code coverage, stress testing, unit testing, and security audits

Generic Resource Manager (GRM)

Web application, Python CLI, and Python library to manage and reserve hardware
React front end with Node and Express backend hooked up to MongoDB
Exposed an authenticated REST API
Built authentication that integrated with company LDAP, implemented with JSON Web Tokens
Hooked into continuous integration process to reserve test hardware from MATF
Tracks all requests, checkins, checkouts, and resources

Topic Status

Web application to view status of code commits in the continuous integration process
Scaled to twelve concurrent releases
Pulled code commit data from MySQL database
Built with vanilla JavaScript and Bulma CSS
Completely searchable, with links to each commit and button to contact the author