SOFTWARE ENGINEER & PRODUCT BUILDER

I turn ideas into software.

I’m Brad. I’ve spent 14 years engineering software for the web, leading teams, and building products of my own.

A few things I've made.

AI / COMMERCE01

AI-assisted gift discovery and personalized recommendations.

CREATIVE TOOLS / AUDIO02

A browser-based stem player for recording, mixing, and sharing tracks.

CREATIVE TOOLS / MUSIC03

A visual workspace for music setups, signal flow, and MIDI control.

A little about my background.

Software engineer with 14 years building scalable web applications, leading engineering initiatives, and mentoring teams.

I build agentic AI features on Workiva’s AI Experiences and Integrations team. Previously, I led front-end architecture at CLEAR and e-commerce development at Volusion.

Frontend ArchitectureUser Experience (UX)Artificial Intelligence (AI)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2012 — PRESENT
WorkivaSeptember 2025 — Present

Technical lead for the AI Experiences & Integrations team, building shared frameworks and context-aware agentic AI experiences.

Staff Software Engineer

September 2025 — Present
  • Serve as technical lead for the AI Experiences & Integrations team, guiding architectural decisions, coordinating engineering efforts, and partnering with product and design to shape technical priorities and future initiatives.
  • Designed and built a shared UI framework for agentic AI, enabling product teams to extend AI experiences with custom, interactive components through dynamic loading and runtime context injection.
  • Played a key role in modernizing Workiva's AI chat platform, migrating from Dart to TypeScript and evolving the client to support agentic capabilities including streaming, thinking states, tool calling, and agentic workflows.
  • Built context-aware AI companion capabilities, connecting agents with application state and document context to enable more intelligent, relevant interactions within Workiva's products.
  • Led the design and implementation of observability and analytics infrastructure for Workiva's AI experiences, integrating OpenTelemetry, Datadog, and Amplitude with automated monitoring and incident alerting through Slack and OpsGenie.
  • Led architectural exploration of emerging agentic AI capabilities, including developing an AG-UI prototype demonstrating agent-generated interfaces, dynamic charts, and custom interactive experiences.
CLEARFebruary 2021 — September 2025

Led front-end architecture for identity verification, browser-based capture, and enrollment kiosks.

Software Engineer

January 2024 — September 2025
  • Led front-end architecture for CLEAR's identity verification platform, used by companies like LinkedIn, Uber, The Home Depot, and T-Mobile.
  • Built in-browser face and document capture features using real-time camera streaming and ML models, significantly improving completion rates and reducing verification time.
  • Mentored engineers through RFCs, code reviews, and architectural guidance, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning.
  • Architected and implemented CLEAR's design system using Chakra UI, adopted org-wide to improve visual consistency and engineering velocity.
  • Partnered with product and design to streamline IDV flows, resulting in higher conversion rates and reduced user friction.
  • Implemented Datadog observability, reducing time-to-debug in production and increasing system reliability.
  • Built a combined TSA PreCheck and CLEAR enrollment kiosk app using Electron, React, and biometric hardware, creating a new revenue stream and boosting memberships.

Software Engineer III

February 2022 — February 2024

Software Engineer II

February 2021 — February 2022

Austin, Texas, United States

VolusionMay 2014 — February 2021

Led greenfield e-commerce development and built storefront features and themes.

Sr. Software Engineer

October 2017 — February 2021

Austin, Texas

  • Led greenfield development of Volusion's next-gen e-commerce platform using TypeScript, React, and Node.js, enabling the business to sunset its legacy stack and deliver a modern, high-performance experience to merchants and shoppers.
  • Mentored junior engineers through code reviews and pair programming, fostering a collaborative and high-performing team environment.

Front End Web Developer

May 2014 — October 2017

Austin, Texas

  • Built new features and enhancements for Volusion's e-commerce platform using AngularJS, improving usability for both store owners and shoppers.
  • Collaborated with designers to develop premium storefront themes, contributing to the theme marketplace revenue channel.
OpenLogixNovember 2012 — March 2014

Built hybrid mobile apps and an internal contingent workforce management system.

Web Application Developer

November 2012 — March 2014

Wixom, MI

  • Developed hybrid mobile apps using JavaScript, HTML/CSS, Apache Cordova, and IBM Worklight to showcase the company's custom app development capabilities to enterprise clients, helping drive new business opportunities.
  • Designed and implemented an internal contingent workforce management system using Backbone.js and Laravel, streamlining operations for contract employees.

TECHNOLOGY & PRACTICE

Languages & Frameworks

TypeScript · JavaScript · React · Next.js · Node.js · GraphQL

AI/ML

Vercel AI SDK · Claude Code · Codex · Google Mediapipe

UI/UX

CSS · Design Systems · Responsive Design · Chakra UI · Material UI · Accessibility · Figma

Testing

Playwright · Jest · Testing Library · Cypress

Cloud & Services

AWS · Vercel · Datadog · Stripe · Supabase

Tooling

Webpack · Babel · ESLint · Prettier · Storybook

EDUCATION

Oakland Community College

Associate in Software Engineering

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