Brad Williford

Experience

1. Disruptive Ventures

   2026 – Now · Stockholm

   Staff AI engineer, software and product

   • Took over CoBuilders Sales and rebuilt it in 60 days around AI-driven inbound and sales workflows. It scaled a portfolio company's inbound leads 10x.
   • Generalized it into a multi-tenant platform serving 10 portfolio companies, setting product direction directly with founders.
   • Designed the AI architecture: multi-step workflows, MCP integrations, prompt and eval pipelines, deployment and monitoring.
   • Built and own the Claude Code skills and MCP servers the company relies on daily.

2. Google Meet

   2020 – 2026 · Stockholm

   Senior engineer, user experience

   • Set technical direction for a year-long, 12-engineer rebuild of screen sharing: up to 70% faster, with ~40% fewer user complaints.
   • Engineering owner for the launch of Picture-in-picture, the compact floating Meet window now opened hundreds of millions of times a week.

3. Google Maps

   2017 – 2020 · San Francisco

   Full-stack software engineer

   • Added earthquake and hurricane visualizations to Google Maps for Google Crisis Response, a feature Sundar Pichai highlighted as a way Google has a positive impact on the world.
   • Built Events on Google Maps, an experimental product that brought events from across the web onto the map.

4. Google Material Design

   2015 – 2017 · San Francisco

   UX engineer

   • Designed and built the collaborative CMS behind the first generation of the Material Design guidelines, used by hundreds of Googlers.
   • Launched Google Design and managed an agency team building its tools and content.

Education

B.S. Computer Science, HCI focus