Bradley Axen - Tech Lead for AI, Block

Bradley Axen

Tech Lead for AI at Block

About

Brad is Tech Lead for AI at Block. He built and maintains goose, the open source AI agent framework owned by the AAIF 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.