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Hi, I'm Bradley Burgess

I am a Cape Town-based musician turned software developer. I have two decades of performing experience on both the piano and organ. I love the web, and have turned a hobby of building for the web into a second career. I love Bach, Beethove, Liszt, and open source software.

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Bradley, seated at a large organ, smiling at the cameraShot of Bradley, deep in thought at the piano, taken from the rear of the piano, with the strings exposedTrying to debug some codeOutside with sunglasses onBlack and white photo of Bradley seated, with a big smile
Bradley, seated at a large organ, smiling at the cameraShot of Bradley, deep in thought at the piano, taken from the rear of the piano, with the strings exposedTrying to debug some codeOutside with sunglasses onBlack and white photo of Bradley seated, with a big smile

Highlights

I'm a musician

I have two decades of professional concertizing, church music, and teaching experience. I have undergrad and graduate degrees in both piano and the pipe organ.

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I'm a software developer

I have always had a passion for tinkering with tech, and I've turned that passion into a second career. I love building for the web, and am currently a Full-stack Software Engineer at Code Collective.

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I love chess

I was reasonably serious about chess when I was younger and played for school's chess team. After a many-year hiatus, I'm getting back into it and playing almost everyday.

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Recent Blog Posts

May 16, 2026 dev

Getting Back to the Blind75

After nearly a year's break, I'm starting the Blind75 problems again.
A black knight and a white knight facing each other on a chessboard
May 13, 2026 chess

I Reached 1300 Rating on Lichess

Hitting a new milestone on Lichess — what's helped and what hasn't.
May 13, 2025 dev

How to Make Pytest Behave with Non-unique Filenames

Sometimes you want to have a standardized file-naming system, and Pytest doesn't like that.
Tsk
May 5, 2025 dev

What I Learned From Building My First C#/.NET Project

Lessons in clean architecture, SOLID design, and great Git workflow
May 2, 2025 dev

Blind75 #2: Valid Anagram

Three different approaches to checking if two strings are anagrams: two hash-based and one sorted.
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