Adam T. Bradley

Software Developer

Experience

Safety Insurance

| Web Applications Developer

November 2021 - Present | Boston, MA

  • Integration and management of APIs: Integrating our system with vendor APIs, a critical component in offering features such as online billing and signup for our telematics app.
  • Research on Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI): Actively involved in Safety's research on GenAI technologies. My focus is on understanding the potential applications of this emerging field and how it can benefit the company. As part of this work, I've developed multiple chatbots designed to assist with specific tasks.
  • Continuous learning: I earned The Institutes' Associate in Information Technology and Associate in Insurance Data Analytics designations.

Brown University

| Library Programmer

October 2010 - September 2021 | Providence, RI

Developed web applications, primarily in Python, PHP, JavaScript, and XSLT.

  • Online Course Reserves Application: Lead the continued development of OCRA, the Library's custom-built course reserves management app, successfully upgrading it to support several new versions of PHP and MySQL. Enhanced OCRA's functionality by integrating free-text and structured API searches, simplifying faculty's addition of course materials. Also created a Chrome extension to simplify the process of requesting items found across the Internet.
  • Inscriptions of Israel-Palestine: Enhanced Solr query efficiency and developed a web-based map interface, furthering the project's research impact and user engagement.

University of Rhode Island

| Part-Time Faculty

August - December 2019 | Kingston, RI

Designed and taught CSC 593, "Programming for Scientists", a three-credit course in introductory computer programming for non-Computer Science graduate students. Assisted students in the development of data science projects relevant to their academic fields, which included engineering, marine and environmental sciences and English literature.

Projects

LLM-based Redmine Search

| Sole Developer

July 2024 - Present | Safety Insurance

Developed a chat-based search interface for our project management and technical documentation platform, implemented as a FastAPI application and a Redmine plugin.

  • Used a combination of Cache-augmented generation and agentic tool-use strategies.
  • Server-side code evolved into an agent "microframework" called smoltalk.

Agent Assistant Chatbot

| Sole Developer

September 2024 - Present | Safety Insurance

Initially a graduate school project, this prototype chatbot is intended to help insurance agents navigate our agent-facing web applications.

Furnace and Fugue

| Lead Developer

November 2017 - July 2020 | Brown University Library

Furnace and Fugue: A Digital Edition of Michael Maier’s Atalanta fugiens was the first project of the Brown University Library's Digital Publishing Initiative. In my role as main developer, I:

  • Developed a Python-based static site generator, fugue, that uses XSL for templating.
  • Implemented a client-side search using the Lunr JavaScript library.

Education

Dakota State University

| Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence

(Expected May 2027)

Madison, SD

Coursework so far has included Advanced Artificial Intelligence, Programming for Data Analytics, and Data Structures.

University of Rhode Island

| Bachelor of Arts in History and German

Kingston, RI

Skills

Programming

10+ years:

  • Python (Django, FastAPI, Numpy, Pandas, LangChain)
  • PHP
  • XSLT

Technology

  • Git/Github
  • Linux
  • Windows
  • Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
  • Chatbot Design