Bradford Clark
Director Of Platform Engineering
Chelmsford, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBradford Clark is a Director of Platform Engineering with over a decade of hands-on and leadership experience building scalable cloud-native platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and data engineering tooling. He blends deep individual-contributor skills with strategic leadership, having built infrastructure and data teams from scratch, driven compliance (HIPAA, SOC2 Type 1), and delivered dramatic operational improvements like near-zero bad deploys and minutes-long data pipelines. Skilled in GCP, Terraform, Argo, GitHub Actions, BigQuery and Kubernetes, he advises on architecture, sets production readiness standards, and champions automation that cut manual ingestion by 98%. A pragmatic problem-solver, Bradford moves between tactical debugging and long-term platform vision, and runs his own consulting practice, LightTouch Technology, while leading platform efforts at Author Health. Based in Chelmsford, MA, he’s known for reducing page loads and outage risk through observability and resilient design—often by translating complex compliance and recovery requirements into practical, repeatable systems.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
UMass LowellWorcester Polytechnic InstituteMiddlesex Community College
English
Github Skills (190)
hugo-theme10
google-cloud-platform10
postgresql10
one-time10
python10
ebpf10
databases10
terraform10
security10
google-cloud10
falco10
pastebin10
data-pipeline10
crypto10
paste10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
bdashrad/bdashrad.com
Mar 2016 - Jun 2022
some kind of static site blog thing
Contributions:7 PRs, 23 pushes, 10 branches in 6 years 4 months
blog-sitestatic-sitestatic-site-generator
bdashrad/hireme
Mar 2016 - Nov 2021
Hire Brad Clark
Contributions:118 commits, 32 PRs, 114 pushes in 5 years 9 months
hirenim-langtext-based
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