Thomas Bradley — Staff Software Engineer

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Staff software engineer at Moonfire, based in Bristol, UK. Also known as Tom Bradley.

Building products at the intersection of venture and AI — harnessing AI and pushing it beyond its limits to reshape how we design, build and ship.

About Thomas Bradley

Staff software engineer at Moonfire, building amazing products and features. Harnessing AI and pushing it beyond its limits. Fifteen years shipping frontend at scale — most recently Moonfire, Scalable, Hopin, Babylon Health, and Betway — with a parallel life as the maker behind drizzlelemons.

Work experience

Staff Software Engineer — Moonfire

— present · London

Joined Moonfire as a senior and promoted to staff in 2026. Building amazing products and features at the intersection of venture and AI — pushing AI beyond its limits to reshape how we design, build and ship.

Senior Software Engineer — Scalable

· Remote

Shipped a move from quarterly releases to a continuous CI/CD pipeline. Led developer teams through best practices and built dashboards on top of backend data.

Senior Software Engineer — Hopin

· Remote

React and TypeScript across a virtual-events platform at hyper-growth scale. Full-stack work with Rails, Kafka, Elasticsearch and Kubernetes. Redux and Redux-Saga for state, Pusher for real-time.

Senior Software Engineer — Babylon Health

· London

Frontend on the client portal with React, GraphQL, Node and Ruby. Shipped against healthcare-scale load with a focus on code quality and rapid iteration.

Lead Developer — Betway

· London

Four years at Betway — senior developer then lead. Built React and Next.js applications used by millions, with trunk-based development, pairing, and LaunchDarkly for A/B testing.

Projects

drizzlelemons

Ad-free recipes · always

A free web tool that strips ads and clutter from any recipe URL. Paste a link, get just the ingredients and steps — no pop-ups, no life stories. AI handles dietary swaps, unit conversion, scaling, shopping lists, and a cook mode with timers and screen wake lock.

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Education

Manchester Metropolitan University — BSc Applied Computing ().