Bradley Jackson
Founding Engineer · Platform, Backend & AI Systems
Founding engineer with 14 years shipping production systems, starting the studio as Intrisign in 2012 before rebranding it to Fortissimo in 2014. 50+ engagements delivered as the sole technical owner, with a pattern of taking ambiguous ideas from concept to launched product and handing them off with docs, tests, and operational clarity.
Angeles One
Dec 2025 - Mar 2026 · sole engineer, contract
Delivered the operating platform for a music school running 1,500+ weekly students, replacing five SaaS tools with one system running for about $10/month.
Fundamental Research Labs
Aug - Sep 2025 · contract · $33M, a16z + Prosus
Built ML infrastructure that lets researchers deploy fine-tunes and evaluate them without an engineer in the loop.
SuperWisdom.ai
Oct 2025 · sole founding engineer, v1, contract
Delivered a privileged-material AI architecture where inference runs inside each customer's own cloud boundary; first working version shipped solo in a three-day sprint.
UltimateFightingStats
Nov 2025 - Present · solo product
Trained, calibrated, and serve a live win-probability model with 65.8% held-out accuracy and promotion gates so a degraded model never reaches users.
SoundMint
2021 - Present · founder, bootstrapped
Built a creator-to-fan music platform with SoundMint Studio, the Crate marketplace, USDC settlement, creator subscriptions, and onchain ownership infrastructure.
GoodPix
2020 - Present · frontend contractor to fractional CTO
Modernized an inherited commerce platform with zero cutover downtime; stylists process $20K+ invoices against $1M+ per month in sales volume on it.
Business Agent
GitHubAug 2026 · MIT · TypeScript, Node 24, Postgres
Public agent harness over synthetic consulting-business records. It demonstrates evidence-backed answers, guarded tools, and per-action approval for writes without exposing real client data.
- 580 tests across 22 files, plus CI paths that run without an API key.
- Nine read/write tools with allowlisting, traceable evidence, and human approval before mutations.
- Extracted as a clean open-source slice of a private production pattern, not presented as a company or client outcome.
Founder and Principal Engineer · Fortissimo
2012 - Present
Independent product studio, started as Intrisign in 2012 and rebranded to Fortissimo in 2014: 50+ engagements as sole technical owner, products behind four acquisitions. Engagements marked contract ran through Fortissimo.
- Embed with founders and teams to take undefined product ideas from discovery to launched software.
- Own architecture, implementation, launch, handoff, documentation, testing, and ongoing retainers when needed.
ML Infrastructure Engineer · Fundamental Research Labs
Aug - Sep 2025
ML infrastructure for the a16z and Prosus-backed research lab behind Shortcut.ai.
- Built model deployment/routing across Modal and Baseten, plus an OpenAI-compatible inference API.
- Founded the evaluation service and datasets product so the lab could measure models immediately after deployment.
Founder and Principal Engineer · SoundMint
2021 - Present
Bootstrapped music creator platform for collaborative releases, commerce, and onchain ownership.
- Built collaborator revenue splits, USDC settlement, Stripe creator subscriptions, Connect payouts, and paid fan memberships.
- Re-platformed the production API from Node to Go and shipped the ownership protocol to Base mainnet.
Platform Architect and Fractional CTO · GoodPix
2020 - Present
Frontend contractor to fractional CTO for a fashion-commerce platform.
- Modernized a 27,000-line monolith in place with its first model layer, service layer, and test suites.
- Served V1 and V2 side by side and moved live users across without a cutover.
Founding Frontend Engineer · Lineups.com
Jun - Sep 2017
Pre-launch sports-data startup acquired by Catena Media for $39.6M in 2022.
- Established the frontend platform in four months and built it search-visibility-first across five sports verticals.
- The founding architecture remained in production years later, through the acquisition, without a rewrite.
- Platform and backend
- API design, service-layered architecture, multi-tenant serving, queues, idempotent ingestion, caching, observability, migrations, incident response.
- AI and ML
- Model deployment and routing, ONNX serving, evaluation pipelines, calibration, promotion gates, Modal, Baseten, Bedrock, OpenAI-compatible APIs.
- Languages
- Python, Go, TypeScript, JavaScript, Swift, Kotlin, SQL, Solidity.
- Infrastructure
- AWS, GCP, Terraform, Docker, GitHub Actions, CI/CD, DynamoDB, Postgres, S3, SQS, EventBridge, CloudWatch.
- Frontend and data
- React, Next.js, Angular, server-side rendering, SwiftUI, Kotlin/Jetpack Compose, PostgreSQL, Supabase, DynamoDB, MongoDB, pgvector.
- Upwork Top Rated Plus: $900K+ earned across 25 contracts, 100% Job Success Score.
- $1M+ earned across 50+ engagements overall.
- Michigan State University, Computer Science, College of Engineering, 2015 - 2017.
Working music producer with 1,000+ original instrumentals and collaborations with Grammy-nominated producer Gezin. Co-founded and coach a FIRST Robotics Competition team in rural Upper Peninsula Michigan: 10 consecutive years reaching the state championship, four World Championship qualifications, and a Worlds appearance in the team's rookie year.