Brad Falk Email & Phone Number

Miami, FL, US

Building and delivering product while scaling the team

After Tally, the co-founder of Tally and I discovered a shared passion for product development, blending design and engineering. We joined to create a new company to build a new product in this space. I was responsible for building two distinct products: Strings and Summon. Strings was a copy writing tool that made it easy for writers to edit copy, the.

• Summon had a much larger vision as an integrated developer experience space for developers to improve their developer lifecycle. I believe that there are so many disjoint tools that compete for attention and increasing.
• Recruiting process that shared ownership with the team and grew a fully remote, international team across North and South America
• Culture of autonomous teams by letting them self select for their strengths and encourage growth to fill the gaps,
• Library to improve our workflow in using DGraph DQL access,
• Library for event streams, a pattern for asynchronous data processing,
• Continuous deployment pipeline that reduced the time from commit to production to under 15 minutes for all services.

San Francisco, California, US

• In the second phase of my time at Tally, having hired a more experienced engineering manager, I transitioned to a Staff Engineer focusing on internal tooling and developer platforms. I was given the opportunity to.
• Introduce an Incident Support process, including a categorization strategy to prioritize incidents such as security, defects and outages, also to roll out PagerDuty and an on-call schedule across all engineering. The.
• Built a small web application to allow potential customers to test if they qualify and download the Tally app on their mobile device. It was an upstream sales funnel pilot project that increased customer acquisition by.
• Built an internal tool for the customer support, credit teams and others to manage the platform and our customers
• When our User Management system was no longer appropriate, I transitioned us to AWS Cognito to improve the security of managing user identity
• Transitioned code versioning from BitBucket to self-hosted GitLab for all teams, and migrated build processes from Jenkins to GitLab's CI/CD to provide fine-grained deployment capabilities and visibility to versions of.

San Francisco, California, US

• Tally helps you save money by automatically paying down your credit card with a revolving line of credit. I was the first hire at Tally and was Head of Engineering. I was responsible for building our MVP which was.
• Created a recruiting process which resulted in the hiring of over 30 engineers. The process was seen as highly engaging and entertaining by candidates and by the team. The process evolved as we collected additional.
• Built a stack focused on stability and quality for Financial Services. The Scala stack supported growth to 1000s of users and significant annual revenue.
• I oversaw the development of the initial iOS app, and the subsequent Android app
• I hired our Head of Data Engineering and Head of Product Engineering and established a Q/A team and a cloud services (infrastructure) team.I feel I grew a lot during this time. It was extremely stressful yet incredibly.

New York, NY, US

Bradley was the CTO and technical cofounder of Poshly Inc where he helped raise 2.5M, built and maintained a full stack, distributed giveaways and analytics platform that was recognized in the Fast Company’s Top 10 Most Innovative Companies of 2015 in Big Data and his flat designs were featured in Entrepreneur magazine. Poshly was initially built using.

Bradley introduced modern patterns and technologies to a large existing back office solution. International Fund Services is a State Street company which provides a suite of fund management tools.

New York, NY, US

Bradley was hired by the CTO as an architect lead to design and build the new trading platform for alternative assets including Private Company shares, like pre-IPO Facebook and Twitter. With insights from the Foursquare team, he designed a distributive and secure stack that leveraged Java, Scala, Postgres, MongoDB, web services and legacy integrations.