Dave Bradford
Founder at Zerobearing Enterprises, LLC
Boise, Idaho, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDave Bradford is a seasoned Sr. Principal Architect and founder with over 20 years of hands-on web development experience and a 15-year track record in leadership roles across startups and product teams. He has moved fluidly between contractor and executive positions—most recently as VP of Engineering and now Sr. Principal Architect at Gierd—helping companies design scalable architectures, optimize engineering processes, and deliver high-impact products. A pragmatic developer at heart, he combines deep Rails and full-stack experience with a strategic focus on efficiency, reliability, and team enablement. As founder of Zerobearing Enterprises since 2006, he brings entrepreneurial grit and a bootstrapper’s mentality to product and platform challenges. Based in Boise, Idaho, he’s also a pilot and avid explorer, traits that mirror his measured risk-taking and curiosity in solving complex technical problems.
15 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at California State University San Marcos
Github Skills (91)
bash10
bash-completion10
vpn9
mesh9
pipeline9
shell9
bash-configuration9
postgresql9
wireguard9
python9
data-collection9
nat-traversal9
mysql9
java9
database8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
QueueClassic/qc-mailer
Aug 2012 - Apr 2013
Contributions:15 commits in 8 months
phpemailsend-emailbackground
zerobearing2/rails-ai
Nov 2025 - Nov 2025
Contributions:1 release, 6 PRs, 70 pushes in 21 days
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