Resume

Bradford Allen Rodgers-Farmer | Senior Software Engineer | [email protected]

Key Accomplishments

Saved $150K per year at Fairygodboss through consolidation of cloud services

Improved page speed of Fairygodboss by 80 percent

Helped design and create the Shoppable Video service, later sold to Unilever and GSK

Worked with large online retailers to integrate their APIs into our checkout flow

Updated Shoppable’s checkout solution to ensure full PCI compliance

Mentored junior developers to level up their skills

Graduated with a master’s degree in Computer Engineering

Projects I've Worked On

Selected products and tools, from commerce infrastructure to AI-powered tabletop experiences.

Latest

crawlers.cc

Free GM tool for running Dungeon Crawler Carl tabletop RPG sessions: dungeon floor generation, tile-by-tile map reveal, and character, loot, and achievement tracking.

Next.jsCloudflareAuth0

Live

TCG Wallet

Core wallet technology for trading card games, engineered with PCI-grade rigor for real-money flows.

Next.jsOAuthGoogle Cloud

AI Tool

Cortex AI NPC Generator

AI-powered non-player character generator for the Cortex Prime tabletop RPG, with backstories, stats, and plot hooks.

Next.jsCloudflare AI

AI Storytelling

Magical Arrival

An AI story-based tabletop RPG with collaborative narrative generation and dynamic story arcs.

Next.jsAI

Jobs

Senior Software Engineer @ PEI

Sep 2026 to Present

Full-time, hybrid role based in New York, United States

Technical Engineering Manager @ Fortune

Jul 2025 to Present

Promoted from Technical Lead (Mar 2025 to Jul 2025) after joining as Senior Software Engineering Consultant (Nov 2024 to Mar 2025, contract)
Helping the Fortune Media team modernize with best engineering and development practices
Improving the core web product and ad product to increase customer acquisition and retention rates

Principal Software Engineer @ Fairygodboss

May 2021 to May 2024

Responsible for managing the development of new features and new products
Choose the technologies that run the company effectively, including migrating article and jobs pages to Next.js
Saved the company $150K per year through consolidation of cloud services
Worked with a professional design team and external partners to deliver a great user experience
Improved the email service with better personalization to lift user retention
Technologies: Node.js, React, Next.js, NestJS, NX, Airflow, Google Cloud Functions, Jenkins, Machine Learning Modeling
Cloud platforms: AWS, GCP
Trained junior developers and led engineering hiring

Principal Software Engineer @ Shoppable

Nov 2016 to May 2021

Joined as Lead Software Developer (Dec 2015 to Nov 2016)
Developed Shoppable Video, later sold to Unilever and GSK
Set up microservices to run checkout
Kept all products PCI compliant and certified
Worked with major brands such as GSK and Unilever to design checkout experiences across their brands
Integrated retailer APIs from Walmart, Target, and Ulta into the checkout flow
Worked directly with the CEO on business and technical direction
Used BPMN to design the checkout and fulfillment flow
Technologies: Rails, Ruby, Node.js, React, BPMN, AngularJS
Cloud platforms: Azure, AWS, GCP

Lead Developer @ Propeller Communications

Dec 2011 to Dec 2015

Created specialized iPad sales applications for Johnson and Johnson sales teams
Turned client requests into shipped product features
Worked closely with the business team at Johnson and Johnson to design products for their sales team
Created documentation for handoffs to business partners
Technologies: iOS, HTML5, JavaScript, Unity (C#), PHP

Skills

Node.jsNext.jsNestJSGoRuby on RailsReactAngularJSBPMNServerlessBehavior Driven DevelopmentSoftware Engineering PracticesJavaScriptMySQLUML DocumentationPythonAjaxLinuxGantt Chart CreationAgile MethodologiesAWSGCPAzureLLMs

Education

M.E. Computer and Electrical Engineering, Rutgers University, 2011 | New Brunswick, New Jersey
B.E. Computer and Electrical Engineering, Rutgers University, 2007 | New Brunswick, New Jersey