Hi, I'm Bradford G. Green -- most people just know me as Brad or "the guy who still has PTSD from the 2024 Pragmatic server meltdown."
I grew up in Shreveport, Louisiana, in a neighborhood where either cicadas or someone hitting a royal flush on a video poker machine at the truck-stop casino across the river was the only thing you'd hear at night. My dad was a riverboat poker dealer; my mom fixed slot machines for a living. So, by the time I learned long division, I already knew variance tables and basic electronics. By 13, I was already re-flashing rooted Android tablets so my cousins could play offshore casino apps that were technically "not available in Louisiana."
I got my Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering at LSU, then immediately fled south to New Orleans because I wanted better food and worse Wi-Fi. Spent the early part of my career doing embedded systems for offshore oil platforms-think writing C on hardware that had to survive hurricanes-then pivoted to full-stack web dev when I realized I could get paid similar money without ever wearing a hard hat again.
In 2023, I joined the tiny but terrifyingly ambitious team behind GambleGum.com. We're the review and bonus hunting site that treats casino testing like crash test dummies treat cars - we actually register, deposit, play 200-500 spins on real money, force withdrawals, and time every step with a stopwatch. My official title is "Lead Automation & Data Engineer," which is a fancy way of saying: I run an army of 200+ residential proxies, a farm of real Android/iOS devices in a climate-controlled closet, Playwright scripts capable of finishing a full KYC flow faster than most humans, and a custom analytics pipeline that knows exactly how often Evolution's Lightning Roulette really hits the 500x multiplier (spoiler: less than they want you to think).
Current daily circus: Rust + Tokio for the crawlers, TimescaleDB for storing millions of spin results, Next.js 15 RC because someone's got to be the bleeding-edge guinea pig, and enough Loki/Grafana dashboards to make NASA jealous. I basically measure my life in milliseconds shaved off bonus-claim flows and successful withdrawals under 4 hours.
When I am not reverse-engineering the latest "impossible to bonus-ban" affiliate tracking pixel, you can usually find me cycling the levee at sunrise, perfecting gumbo that'll make you cry, or playing $1/$3 live cash games at Harrah's New Orleans — strictly for "live dealer competitor research," obviously.
Current addictions: 75 % Boba keycaps, single-origin Honduras beans roasted 48 hours before drinking, trying to hit sub-2-second withdrawal times industry-wide, and convincing operators that transparent game RTP logs aren't witchcraft.