Hello, I am Evan Bradley

FDE, Tech Lead
Palantir Technologies
New York, NY

Experience

Palantir Technologies

Forward Deployed Software Engineer, Tech Lead
(Jun 2025 - Present)

Promoted to Tech Lead within six months after joining as one of two engineers rebuilding a customer team following significant turnover. Helped grow the team to five engineers while leading technical architecture, delivery, and roadmap for full-stack applications built on Palantir Foundry and Apollo, contributing to a ~5x expansion of the team's contract portfolio.

Designed scalable data models and built PySpark ETL pipelines to transform large, messy datasets—including geospatial data—into structured, production-ready datasets. Built React frontends and backend APIs exposing this data through interactive applications used daily by customers.

Yext

Software Engineer
(Feb 2023 - Jun 2025)

Full-stack engineer on the Knowledge Graph team, building customer-facing features in React, TypeScript, Java, and Go. Built the AI-powered Generated Field Values feature, enabling customers to automatically generate business information using LLMs. Designed a data pipeline that backfilled over 40 million records using Kafka, RabbitMQ, and Snowflake, and expanded file upload support from 48MB to 1GB using Google Cloud Storage.

University of Iowa

Graduate Teaching Assistant
(Aug 2020 - Dec 2022)

TA for Machine Learning, Software Engineering Languages & Tools, and Communication Networks. Led weekly discussion sections of 20–30 students, created instructional materials, and taught concepts including networking, machine learning, software engineering, and systems programming. Tools used: Python, C, Ruby, and Wireshark.

Meta

Software Engineer Intern
(May 2022 - Aug 2022)

Built internal tooling for Meta's cloud gaming infrastructure, including a stress-testing framework capable of simulating up to 10,000 concurrent users. Developed and deployed a Python/Selenium chatbot that automated end-to-end testing workflows, reducing manual test setup time and improving developer productivity.

My Work

Who I am

BSE, Computer Science and Engineering
MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering

I am currently a Forward Deployed Software Engineer and Tech Lead at Palantir Technologies in New York City. My work spans full-stack software engineering, distributed systems, data engineering, and customer-facing product development. I enjoy working at the intersection of software and real-world operations, partnering directly with users to build products that solve meaningful problems.

Before joining Palantir, I was a Software Engineer at Yext, where I built AI-powered features, large-scale data pipelines, and core Knowledge Graph functionality. During graduate school at the University of Iowa, I worked as a teaching assistant and completed software engineering internships at Meta, Collins Aerospace, and Ricoh.

Outside of work, I enjoy distance running, skiing, camping, and traveling. I also enjoy learning languages—I studied Spanish during college and am currently learning German in my free time.

My work

A selection of my personal projects