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Edward Bridges

Edward Bridges

Engineering leader with 20+ years building and running product engineering organizations — from hedge fund administration systems to healthcare data platforms to consumer software used by tens of millions of people. I work across the full range, from IC-depth systems work to leading orgs of 50+, across fintech, healthtech, media, and proptech.

Full work history → LinkedIn

Scope and impact · Open source · Currently


Scope and impact

Company Highlight
Squarespace Architected a shared React/React Native system powering the flagship mobile app (~70% logic reuse across web & mobile); led Unfold acquisition integration & BioSites launch (2021 Super Bowl ad, cited in S-1)
GreenLite Built agentic AI construction planset review system (15 → 300+ reviews/mo); led Terraform/IaC migration; grew org 3 → 11
Aetion Led core platform team; Spark/Databricks migration cut response time 80% on 200M+ patient datasets
Citco Fund Services Re-architected derivatives pricing & risk/scenario engine

Accomplishments

Squarespace · Consumer / media software
  • Owned the architecture decision for how the flagship mobile app (iOS/Android) shared content-editing business logic with the web CMS: evaluated hybrid webview, fully-native, and shared-component approaches, and built a shared React/React Native component system achieving ~70% business-logic reuse across web and mobile
  • Solved the hard technical problems that came with it — a native↔JS navigation stack extending React Native internals, a single-JS-context bridge for multiple concurrent component instances, and an Axios/Fetch networking polyfill onto the native layer — work presented externally at Chain React
  • Led integration of the Unfold acquisition (5-6M MAU) and shipped BioSites — featured in Squarespace's 2021 Super Bowl ad and cited 25x in the company's S-1
  • Led the response to an App Store-wide ban over in-app-purchase compliance, shipping a compliant rebuild across all three apps within a year with zero team attrition
GreenLite · Proptech / construction tech
  • Designed and built an agentic AI system — OCR, vector search, and a knowledge graph — for automated construction plan-set review, taking plan-review throughput from ~15/month to 300+/month
  • Led the migration to infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) as part of bringing the company into SOC2 Type 2 compliance, alongside a pen test and SOC observation period
  • Grew the org from an inherited 3-person full-stack team to ~11 people (part of a 17-person product/eng/design team), standing up new AI, data, and SRE functions while mentoring the original engineers into more senior roles
Aetion · Healthtech
  • Led the team behind the core business logic of a regulatory-grade real-world-evidence platform used by pharma and payers, operating on datasets up to 50TB / 200M+ patients
  • Directed the migration off a proprietary datastore onto Spark/Databricks, cutting application response time by 80%
Citco Fund Services · Fintech
  • Early-career systems work: re-architected a hedge fund administration platform's accounting, derivatives pricing, and risk/scenario-analysis services onto a .NET/Java client-server system

Open source

  • Wakil: a knowledge base assistant - a local-first Python CLI agent for working with a personal Markdown knowledge base (GBrain / Obsidian style): ingest, search, connect, revise, and reason over Markdown notes.
  • minimal-neural-network — a neural network implemented in C with no external dependencies (forward/backward propagation), with a JS/React UI for using it.
  • elektrum — a self-hosted alternative to Google Photos (Python/JS), with automated AWS infrastructure via Ansible.
    • lgw — deploy an app as a Lambda behind API Gateway
    • metadata-processor — image metadata extraction for storage/search
    • thumbnailer — efficient image thumbnailing

Currently

Deep in applied agentic AI/LLM engineering — production systems, not demos — plus data analytics.


Outside of engineering, I build furniture with hand tools (workbenches, dovetail joinery, and inspired by George Nakashima), lean toward Jazz, Classical, and New York's late-70s art-rock and post-punk sounds, and live in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

LinkedIn · GitHub

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  1. minimal-neural-network minimal-neural-network Public

    Minimal neural network implemented & trained in C.

    Python

  2. elektrum elektrum Public

    A platform for hosting and sharing media.

    Python

  3. lgw lgw Public

    Configure an AWS Gateway in front of a Lambda function.

    Python

  4. gphoto-uploader gphoto-uploader Public

    Uploads images to the new Google Photos API

    Java 4

  5. csv2qif csv2qif Public

    Convert financial transactions in CSV format to QIF files.

    Python 3 1

  6. accounting-reports accounting-reports Public

    Accounting reports for GNUCash.

    Python 9 1