Architect.
Engineer.
Deliver.
9 years architecting mission-critical telecom systems supporting 300,000+ subscribers and $40M–50M annual revenue. First engineer in program's 30-year history to deploy production server code.
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Blaike Bradford
Dallas, TX
What I Build
Enterprise-grade systems across authentication, cloud infrastructure, and full-stack development.
Annual Cost Savings
Infrastructure Reduction
Serverless migration, Terraform automation, CI/CD pipelines reducing deployment from 4 hours to 15 minutes.
Hours Saved Quarterly
Via Automation
Cloud & DevOps
Sole cloud architect managing Azure infrastructure across production and non-production environments. Designed CI/CD pipelines for 30+ engineers.
Security Incidents
Over 24 Months
Security & Monitoring
Python/Flask SNMP monitoring with sub-second alerts. Reduced incident response by 60% through automated failover and real-time alerting.
Daily Data Points
Real-Time Processing
Architecture & Data
Fault-tolerant microservices with automated failover. REST APIs and GraphQL interfaces supporting mission-critical telecom operations.
Engineered for impact
Measurable results across enterprise authentication, cloud infrastructure, and software delivery at AT&T.
Scale
Telecom Infrastructure
Government and first responder subscribers supported across LTE/5G networks through mission-critical priority telecom services.
Pioneer
30-Year Program
First engineer to design and deploy production server code in the program's 30-year history, establishing new technical standards for cloud-native authentication and infrastructure automation.
Reliability
Enterprise Systems
Uptime maintained for mission-critical systems. Zero security incidents over 24 months. Cross-functional collaboration with 13+ engineers across AT&T, HPE, Nokia, and government contractors.
EXPERIENCE
Professional experience in enterprise telecom and software engineering.
AT&T
Nov 2017 – Present
Principal Software Engineer, Cloud Architect & Technical Lead. Architecting mission-critical telecom systems supporting 300K+ subscribers.
Enterprise Auth Architecture
Designed and deployed production OIDC authentication gateway. Led complete authentication architecture redesign from concept through production over 8-month timeline.
Cloud Infrastructure
Sole cloud architect on 2-person team. Reduced cloud costs by $100K+ annually (40% reduction). Designed CI/CD pipelines reducing deployment from 4 hours to 15 minutes.
Full-Stack Development
Built 3 production applications with Spring Boot microservices, Next.js frontends, and Redis caching processing 100K+ daily transactions with sub-200ms response times.
Safecom-Wireless
Apr 2019 – Sep 2019
Python Developer (Contract). Delivered Python GUI interface for embedded systems within first 2 sprints. Updated C++ embedded system functionality reducing memory footprint by 25%.
AT&T
Nov 2017 – Present
Principal Software Engineer, Cloud Architect & Technical Lead. Architecting mission-critical telecom systems supporting 300K+ subscribers.
Enterprise Auth Architecture
Designed and deployed production OIDC authentication gateway. Led complete authentication architecture redesign from concept through production over 8-month timeline.
Featured Work
Open-source projects demonstrating full-stack development, from frontend interfaces to backend architecture.
AI-Security-Guard
AI-Security-Guard application highlighting AI Intelligent video processing
AzureMicroservices
This project is built using Docker containers (Spring Microservices + Nextjs Fronted, Database layer, deployed to Azure using Terraform)
BotMarketplace_demo
Bot Marketplace Demo fullstack application with Typescript & Python, Docker local testing and AWS deployment
RealTimeSocketIO
Realtime Application | Websockets | NextJS | Docker | Typescript | Redis | Fastify
SpringSecurityDemo
First Spring Boot application as a Authentication Layer
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Principal Software Engineer specializing in cloud architecture, enterprise auth, and full-stack development.
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