Bradford Fults Product, Engineering & Technology Recruiting Leader. It’s

Chief Executive Officer

Kinasait

Feb 2024 - Current (2 years 7 months)

Bridging the gap between excellent product companies hiring technology professionals and the incredible talent in Mexico waiting to help them.

VP, Product & Engineering

bonsai

Jan 2024 - Current (2 years 8 months)

I lead product management & development for Bonsai’s search offerings.

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Founder, Principal

Praxis Efficax

Oct 2023 - Aug 2024 (11 months)

I worked with clients to build & sustain product-centric organizations with healthy product development practices that led to satisfied customers and growing businesses.

Sr. Director, Platform & Reliability Engineering

SailPoint

Mar 2022 - Jul 2023 (1 year 5 months)

I led and supported all platform, internal tools, reliability, and triage engineering teams who built and maintained the modern SailPoint SaaS Platform. Everything from Performance, to Authn/z, to no-code Workflows, to APIs and connectivity, to Quality, to web UI frameworks, to customer notifications, Kafka event processing, domain data layers, performance engineering, and more. We enabled the future of what was possible in identity security by providing a world-class platform of services, standards, guidance, systems, libraries and collaboration. 13 teams, 115+ engineers, engineering managers, senior managers & directors.

Director, Platform Engineering

SailPoint

Sep 2020 - Mar 2022 (1 year 7 months)

I supported a high-performance SaaS platform of data stores, APIs, services, event buses, developer frameworks, etc. with a great set of teams. We were focused on building the foundation for the future of identity management & governance. 9 teams, 50 engineers, managers & senior managers.

Director, Engineering, Run, Train & Connected Devices

Under Armour

Nov 2018 - Sep 2020 (1 year 11 months)

I led and supported all software teams behind the MapMyRun consumer fitness tracking app (iOS, Android), its companion experiences (Web, Apple Watch, Samsung Gear); UA’s gym training features in MapMyRun and MyFitnessPal; UA’s core workouts domain definition and systems; and UA’s digital consumer hardware, including all software, firmware, hardware and global operations behind the UA HOVR™ Connected Running Shoes. Organization size varied between 40–60 engineers, managers & senior managers. Teams included: Run Android, Run iOS, Run Backend, Run Web, Run Apple Watch, Run Samsung Gear, Core Workouts, Train Mobile, Train Backend, and Connected Devices Hardware, Firmware, Logistics, and Manufacturing.

Senior Manager, Engineering & Head of Connected Devices

Under Armour

Aug 2017 - Nov 2018 (1 year 4 months)

I took on the challenge of leading and operationalizing the teams responsible for bringing connected devices to market across hardware design & manufacturing, apparel manufacturing integration, hardware module design, embedded firmware development, and mobile software integration (via Bluetooth). I negotiated partnership structures with international vendors (including financial models, internal business tradeoffs, in-person negotiations, legal contract ownership, and partner accountability); led internal cross-team partnerships with our Innovation, MapMyRun, and Footwear teams; took responsibility for the overall technical soundness of our connected shoe product; and successfully led the teams to an on-time debut launch of UA’s HOVR connec

Chief of Staff, Engineering

Under Armour

Apr 2016 - Aug 2017 (1 year 5 months)

I worked directly with the VP Engineering, other functions and executives to make all 25+ of UA’s software teams (175+ engineers) more effective by establishing a program management function and hiring its first leader, managing and forecasting budgets, negotiating and owning contracting partner relationships, running cost-savings initiatives to the tune of millions of dollars, planning and executing org changes, establishing and tuning team processes, mentoring and developing opportunities for other leaders and engineers, and ensuring efficient cross-organization execution, defining the future of connected fitness.

Manager, Engineering, Public API

Under Armour

Jan 2015 - Apr 2016 (1 year 4 months)

I built effective engineering teams, shipped interesting services to support the UA developer API and our flagship hardware products. I also routinely worked out-of-title to improve our entire engineering organization. I was promoted to take on a role to increase the effectiveness of the VP Engineering and improve the entire engineering organization.

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Head of Engineering

The Last Guide Company

May 2014 - Nov 2014 (7 months)

I joined as #5 on the team to build quality products and lead a quality team in an experimental distributed personnel environment (5 US locations, 3 time zones). I wrote code, designed system architecture, made sprint plans, developed lightweight project requirements and led the very small engineering team to ensure that quality code was being shipped and maintained. The company started to run out of money in a tight funding environment, so I moved on to prolong pay for remaining engineers.

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Co-Founder, Lead Engineer

Uncommon in Common

Sep 2012 - Jun 2016 (3 years 10 months)

I co-founded and built a slow web community with my good friend Brian Bailey.

Director, Engineering & Operations

Return Path

Apr 2012 - May 2014 (2 years 2 months)

I oversaw the engineering (consumer, mobile, data processing) and system operations teams for Return Path’s large-scale data intake department and was responsible for people management, career development, individual mentorship, cross-functional collaboration, project oversight, team metrics, shipping new software and overall team output. Our teams were responsible for running a series of high-volume Kafka clusters, data classifiers, AWS Elastic MapReduce job flows, a MapR cluster (with Hadoop jobs and Hive tables) and several data applications written in Ruby, Objective-C, JavaScript, Python, Java and Perl. I was rated in the top 5% of the company's then-400 employees in early 2014. I left to pursue a new leadership opportunity with a ti

Senior Developer, Team Lead

Return Path

Jan 2012 - Apr 2012 (4 months)

I worked on the code, APIs, processes and data stores that powered the OtherInbox platform. I was promoted to oversee the engineering teams in the department after the previous leader was promoted and relocated.

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Senior Developer, Team Lead

Gowalla Incorporated

Nov 2010 - Dec 2011 (1 year 2 months)

Joined the small engineering team to bring scaling expertise, software architecture experience and team leadership to the company already adept at producing quality products. Led efforts to reconceive a new platform on which to build the next version of Gowalla, including new data stores, software design for custom geolocation features and the core of social travel guides. Gowalla was acquired by Facebook and I had no desire to move back to California, so I chose to stay in Austin and join Return Path.

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Senior Developer, Team Lead

Causescom

Nov 2007 - Oct 2010 (3 years)

I worked as senior engineer for Causes' web applications, setting the pace and conventions for front-end architecture, writing solid server-side Rails code that scaled, guiding the product and design processes and hiring developers to build out the strong Causes team. I left to escape California and embrace Austin and the incredible team at Gowalla.

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Lead UI Developer

Eventful Inc

Dec 2005 - Nov 2007 (2 years)

I hired and led the UI development team for the eventful.com website and other Eventful products. We dealt mostly in PHP, Perl, JavaScript, XHTML and CSS. I also co-designed the custom RESTful web framework that the site was transitioned to starting in mid 2007. I left to pursue an opportunity at an early-stage web startup with a mission to do good in the world: Causes.

Software Development Engineer Intern

Amazoncom

Jun 2005 - Sep 2005 (4 months)

Worked with the Display Platform team on projects involving Perl, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

IT Consultant & Software Developer

Independent

Jun 2002 - Dec 2005 (3 years 7 months)

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Software Developer

Local Distributor

Jun 1999 - Aug 2001 (2 years 3 months)

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