Brad Anderson
Northern New Mexico
My name is Brad Anderson, and I live in the mountains near Taos, New Mexico USA with my wife (Jen), daughter (Chase), and our dogs. My interests include snowboarding, hiking, nature, conservation, animal behavior, programming, philosophy, photography, sound design, cooking, and 3D art.
I am a self-taught engineer with a degree in art and more than 25 years shipping software. My early work spanned front-end and back-end development across many languages and stacks. These days my focus is multi-agent systems, the substrate and runtimes that let agents do real work. I build spec-first, in modern TypeScript, with tools like Bun, Hono, Vue 3, three.js (WebGPU), and MongoDB. My main project is MXF, an open-source multi-agent framework I have built over the past few years. Everything I make rests on a strong sense of software architecture, design patterns, and usability, and I have worked remotely and on-site, independently and as part of a team. To view my professional profile, please visit my LinkedIn page.
Here at our home, we run a small preservation effort for the Kai Ken, a rare Japanese hunting breed. Our efforts focus on preserving the North American bloodlines, avoiding genetic roadblocks, and educating the enthusiast community about these dogs. We have a small kennel and run a forum dedicated to the Nihon Ken (Japanese Dog) breeds. For more on our work, please visit yamabushikennel.org. To connect with other breed enthusiasts, please visit The Nihon Ken Forum.
My wife and I moved to Taos from Atlanta, GA in 2008. We left to escape the hyper-consumption of city life and to pursue our conservation and preservation work. Our home now sits in the piñon-juniper woodland of the Carson National Forest, near Taos, at roughly 7,500 feet. Living remotely has simplified our life, which helps us focus on everything we do, in work and in play. My professional focus and the quality of my output have improved, while also leaving me more time to spend with Jen and Chase, to look after the dogs, and to chase the rest of what we love out here.