Brad Friedman

Engineering Leader, AI Expert

About Me

Hi, I’m Brad! I’m a software engineer and team leader. I specialize in leading full-stack web service teams both as senior IC and manager. My passion is generative AI and the multimodal application of LLMs.

As an IC, my expertise is in backend web services written in Python, built on AWS or GCP cloud infrastructure.

I believe generative AI will radically change the world and will be in the service of humanity. It’s our duty as technologists to harness and deploy nonbiological intelligence responsibly to solve human problems. We can accelerate this amazing technology while also ensuring the benefit is equitable. The rising tide of AI should lift all boats.

Open to interesting work around generative AI and its business applications.

Projects

Convobot

A fully-customizable conversation bot for Raspberry Pi

I created this project to act as a multi-purpose AI companion that responds with any voice you like (say, Barack Obama’s) about any topic you like (say, help with calculus homework). It’s incredibly flexible, powerful, and fun!

Experience

Remitly

Senior Engineering Manager

2022 - 2023

remitly.com

Building world-class international remittance experiences

Responsible for the B2B engineering team, empowering other businesses to tap into Remitly’s vast, established remittance networks.

Zillow

Senior Engineering Manager

2019 - 2022

zillow.com

Zillow Group is reimagining real estate to make it easier to unlock life’s next chapter.

Responsible for the Zillow Offers growth team, providing much of the iBuying experience for sellers on the platform

Alphabet (Google) - EngEdu

Senior Engineering Manager

2017 - 2019

about.google

Google's Engineering Education group is responsible for providing learning materials both internally and externally about Google's products.

Administrated the Seattle/Kirkland Engineering Residency Program, mentoring and leading cohorts of 25 residents through a year-long internship, while writing software to support this program.

Alphabet (Google) - Cloud Endpoints

Senior Software Engineer

2015 - 2017

about.google

The Cloud Endpoints team is part of the Google Cloud Platform organization

Designed and built developer tools for Python developers wishing to publish their APIs via Google App Engine

Education

Princeton University

BSE, Computer Science

In the Nation's Service and the Service of Humanity

During my time at Princeton, I expanded on my childhood interests in software by learning the foundational tenets of computer science and software engineering.

My senior thesis was on autonomous vehicle navigation.

A Little More About Me

Alongside software engineering and artificial intelligence, some of my other interests and hobbies are: