Bradley
Axen

Brad is Tech Lead for AI & Data Platform at Block. He built and maintains codename goose, Block’s open source AI agent framework that automates repetitive tasks for thousands of engineers in the company. He also leads company-wide initiatives to optimize data and ML workflows and evolve platform architecture. Brad has a long history in python, distributed compute systems, and applied machine learning. Brad previously earned his physics PhD from UC Berkeley and worked on processing and analyzing data at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva.