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Interactive composition

Adaptive Music

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Original songs · full-screen listening room

Music Production

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Bradley Leatherwood B.E.L

You bring the problem. I design the path and ship it.

Founder of inKibra , an AI development & deployment company. Former Google Search engineer — features used by a billion people. Named inventor on a granted U.S. patent. Fifteen years across startups, scale-ups, and Google, owning the work from product design through production.

Granted U.S. patent USPTO US12602426B2 — Named inventor and technical author
Consent-management prior art · 284 citing publications

Capabilities

Product Design & Management

product strategy, discovery, UX and product design, rapid prototyping (Claude, Framer), turning ambiguous business problems into scoped roadmaps, requirements shaping, analytics-driven iteration, stakeholder management

2022 – Present now

inKibra, Inc.

Founder / CEO / CTO

Web · back office⟶API · documents⟶Mobile · field crews

AI development and deployment company delivering production AI, workflow automation, and full-stack systems for business clients.

2022 – Present now

inKibra — Recordless & ToneTempo

Founder — Product, Audio AI & Patent Strategy

FIG. 2 — recomposition apparatus · U.S. Patent US12602426B2

102

source track

⟶
104

recomposition engine

⟶
106

adaptive output

<30 ms

Proprietary AI fitness and interactive-music products built inside inKibra: personalized workouts, real-time coaching, and patented dynamic music recomposition.

2020 – 2022

Google

Senior Software Engineer, Search

1B

monthly users

100M+

daily users

+5%

DAU lift

3×

hackathon wins

Launched local-answer action buttons (call, directions, food ordering) on Search — a 5% DAU increase on the surface, used by 100M+ people daily.

2018 – 2020

Luxe / Volvo

Senior Full Stack Developer

Luxe / Volvo historical product interface
Service summary and pickup scheduling. Surviving Volvo Valet app-store screenshot; exact capture date unverified.

On-demand valet startup acquired by Volvo and rebuilt as the testbed for Volvo's consumer services in the run-up to the Polestar launch.

  • Flight training resumed

2017 – 2018

MSMCI / Megastar

Engineering Team Lead & Senior Full Stack Developer

MSMCI / Megastar historical product interface
Megastar welcome, discovery and creator-profile design presentations. Source and design credit: Julie Nielsen.

Entertainment startup creating live talent-show products with celebrity judges such as Usher.

2015 – 2017

Trunomi

Lead Front-End Developer & Full Stack Developer

Trunomi historical product interface
Trunomi Customer Messaging Application dashboard, reproduced in the IAPP 2017 Privacy Tech Vendor Report, page 61. Original low-resolution image.

FinTech startup providing consent and customer-data management for banks and any company facing GDPR-era regulation.

2014 – 2015

Smaato

Manager, Sales Engineering

German mobile ad exchange with 80,000+ publishers and 500 demand-side partners.

2013 – 2020

Independent Projects & Consulting

Consultant & Open-Source Author

Distributed systems, blockchain infrastructure, ad tech, and media consulting alongside full-time roles.

2011 – 2014

Jacobs University Bremen

B.Sc., Information Management and Systems

Operations management, computer science (operating systems, databases), and information systems

  • Jacobs University Scholar
  • National Merit Scholarship Finalist
  • Jacobs University Student President
  • Ultimate Frisbee — team captain, tournament wins

2008 – 2011

Portal Games

Founder

Independent game studio and publisher — the first founder story.

  • Scuba diver — certified
  • French (conversational) — learned in France
  • Flight training — hours logged and every private-pilot requirement met except the final check ride

inKibra, Inc.

2022 – Present

Founder / CEO / CTO

How an engagement runs

From “we have a problem” to shipped, measured software.
▲ workflow errors: high

“Crews are double-entering safety checklists, and we can't tell which version of a drawing is current.”

No spec needed — I embed and find the real requirements.

stakeholder interviewsfield-crew shadowingconstraint: offline-first sitesUX flows draftedsuccess metric agreed

A system design that fits how the org works — buy-in when it matters; usually it's high-trust: bring the problem, I fix it.

Web · back office⟶API · documents⟶Mobile · field crews

Shipped behind a feature flag — rolled out crew by crew.

checklist-v2 enabled

rollout 10% → 100% · preview env → production

▼ workflow errors → near zero

Observability judged the launch — then we picked the next problem. The solutions compound.

embedded hourly retainer ~½ the firm's internal software shipped this way

Founder — Product, Audio AI & Patent Strategy

Inside the product lab

Songs that restructure themselves around you.

The engine labels a track's sections and recomposes them live — at sub-30 ms latency:

FIG. 2 — recomposition apparatus · U.S. Patent US12602426B2

102

source track

⟶
104

recomposition engine

BPM-aware · equal-power crossfades · stem-aware

⟶
106

adaptive output

<30 ms latency

IN
VERSE
CHORUS
CHORUS
VERSE
DROP
OUT
the original arrangement …duplicate the chorus …insert an extra verse …stretch sections to match your pace
An AI you talk with, not at.

Most AI chat is turn-taking: you wait. ToneTempo's coach attends to multiple threads in one chat — answering the quick question while a longer reply is still being composed.

↳ workout planRebuild today's workout — longer cooldown, new music.
composing your plan…
↳ quick questionQuick one — good warm-up BPM?
↳ answered instantly100–115 BPM — I'll start you at 108.
↳ workout plan · doneDone — cooldown extended to 8 min, playlist recomposed to land on slower sections.
Shipped, on the App Store, in use.

TypeScript, React, Tauri iOS, Swift plugins, HealthKit, Stripe and Apple IAP — through TestFlight alphas to production.

1000s

of users

10

creators onboarded

iOS + web

live surfaces

Google

2020 – 2022

Senior Software Engineer, Search

What shipping at Google scale means

Small buttons. A billion people.

1B

monthly users of Geo TTS + accessibility improvements

100M+

daily users of the local-answer actions

+5%

DAU lift from the launched buttons

3×

hackathon wins — one since launched publicly

before

Tony's Little Sicily

4.6 ★★★★★ · Italian · 1.2 mi

after — launched 2021 · 100M+ daily · +5% DAU

Tony's Little Sicily

4.6 ★★★★★ · Italian · 1.2 mi · Open until 10 PM

📞 Call➤ Directions🍝 Order

before — brittle TTS engine

🔊 “Turn left on M—” ✗ playback error

after — rebuilt engine · −3% errors · 1B users/mo

🔊 “Turn left on Main Street.”

before

“navigate to piza nesr me”

“Sorry, I didn't understand.”

after — NLP recovery · shipped by the owning team

“navigate to piza nesr me”

“Did you mean: pizza near me?” Yes

before — one destination at a time

📍 Mall

after — multi-stop itineraries · launched publicly

🏬 Mall → 🍝 Dinner → 🎬 Movie

before — framework blocked screen-reader fixes

screen reader: “button”

after — highest accessibility score · 1B users/mo

screen reader: “Order food — button”

before — solo, one-shot searches

“restaurants near me”

after — shareable collections + GAN venue matching

Date night ideas

shared collection · 12 places · matched to your taste

+ Add place👥 Shared

3× hackathon wins · taste-based search drove new headcount + director-level OKRs

Luxe / Volvo

2018 – 2020

Senior Full Stack Developer

  • Joined immediately after the acquisition as one of three backend engineers turning the Luxe car-movement engine into Volvo service infrastructure — re-architecting backend workflows so the startup's valet engine could power Volvo's consumer service flows, the service foundation for the Polestar launch.
  • Led the SDK-first refactor (TypeScript AST codemods) that drew a clean API boundary between the backend and the five-person frontend team — unlocking parallel frontend development, eliminating duplicated code and cyclic dependencies, and introducing a Cap'n Proto / GraphQL–inspired pattern for bundling API calls.
  • Built the localization workflow (GitHub Actions, Docker) used by the Luxe and Volvo On Call teams; advised European GDPR and Chinese data-compliance architecture.
Flight training resumed
alongside the Luxe/Volvo years

MSMCI / Megastar

2017 – 2018

Engineering Team Lead & Senior Full Stack Developer

  • Architected the microservice framework, self-documenting protobuf-inspired RPC tooling, and WebRTC-based sub-second event streaming that let live polls and chat games track the broadcast in real time — the show's engagement engine.
  • Led a six-person engineering team across React Native apps, release workflows, and FFMPEG/CDN/Wowza video pipelines on AWS with Terraform, Docker, and Consul.
  • Owned hiring — designed a methodology of phone screens, coding challenges, and team interviews, and grew the team by two engineers.
  • Helped set up and produce the end-of-season live show streamed by Usher — including firefighting a last-minute streaming-vendor settings change as the broadcast went live.
  • Led product development of a machine-learning social-media usage optimizer for brands and influencers — interviewed external stakeholders to identify market needs and opportunity size, collaborated on the business plan, and presented recommendations to senior management.

Trunomi

2015 – 2017

Lead Front-End Developer & Full Stack Developer

  • Architected TypeScript microservice APIs with ledger-based data models, generated clients and SDKs, JWT authentication, and enterprise partner integrations.
  • Built a finite-state-machine tester proving complete state-transition coverage; owned cloud-security — managing a PKI and secrets with Vault and Keybase and setting the developer toolchain and best practices.
  • Contributed to the product roadmap with a component-based workflow-composition UI that sidestepped rules-engine complexity entirely — ASN.1/PKCS#7 for security, multi-part messages for legacy compatibility and extensibility.
  • Named inventor on Trunomi's 2017 consent-management filings — obtaining and releasing personal information under explicit user authorization, years before the privacy-compliance category consolidated around the same problem.
Cited by

Selected citing entities for Trunomi filing US20170140174A1 · 284 citing publications in the 2026-09-10 snapshot. Counts are publication records, not endorsements or unique inventions. DHS: U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Smaato

2014 – 2015

Manager, Sales Engineering

  • Built the team's log-search and analytics tools — shared searches and saved analysis scripts that let the six-to-eight-person sales-engineering team cut through exchange logs to spot failures and usage patterns across billions of daily impressions — making key queries 10x faster.
  • Reported to the COO and Director of Global Sales Engineering; integrated demand-side platforms and ad networks into the exchange.

Independent Projects & Consulting

2013 – 2020

Consultant & Open-Source Author

  • Authored EIP-1080 (Recoverable Token), an early complete interface for recovering lost or stolen tokens at the contract layer — engaging the Ethereum community and the Kleros arbitration network on game-theoretic griefing constraints. Researchers at Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon built the first full implementation of it, naming their IEEE paper after the proposal and benchmarking its exact function calls.
  • Led Horizon Games' scaling research and early prototypes — account-based Plasma, Tendermint-style consensus, a TypeScript/WebAssembly sidechain with a two-way Ethereum bridge — work that fed the core technology that became Sequence, the wallet platform now powering millions of onchain interactions.
  • Consulted for Bitfinex/Ethfinex on market-making incentives — built the reference solution on the 0x protocol with token auctions and a fee-collecting ERC-20.
  • Audited the designs that preceded Bitfinex's production Nectar token — eliminating reentrancy and overflow attacks, with simulation mocks to tune parameters against griefing and sybil attacks.
  • Built Smaato's first self-service ad-tag creation flow (React/Node, designed end to end) so clients could configure tags for any SDK without sales-engineer help — plus malicious rich-media testing pipelines, OpenRTB bidder integrations, and VAST compliance automation.
  • Migrated MSMCI's AWS infrastructure to a new account within 24 hours with zero app downtime, using Terraform, Consul, and Docker.
Implemented byTécnico Lisboa
Published atIEEE NCA · 2020

Martins, Matos, Pardal & Correia. Recoverable Token: Recovering from Intrusions against Digital Assets in Ethereum. IEEE NCA, 2020. INESC-ID / Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon. PDF ↗ · EIP-1080 specification ↗

Operations Management & Client-Side Web Programming

B.Sc., Information Management and Systems

Jacobs University Scholar
awarded in the final year of high school
National Merit Scholarship Finalist
awarded in the final year of high school
Jacobs University Student President
second year
Ultimate Frisbee — team captain, tournament wins
university years

Portal Games

2008 – 2011

Founder

  • Built a 3D game engine for Xbox 360 in C#/XNA — multithreaded physics, AI, rendering, and FPS mechanics — and released it open source.
  • Developed latency-aware networking that scaled server-client communication with the visibility and proximity of players' avatars.
  • Published games on the Xbox marketplace on behalf of other developers.
Scuba diver — certified
high school
French (conversational) — learned in France
high school
Flight training — hours logged and every private-pilot requirement met except the final check ride
started in high school