About Me
Ben Broad
Director of QA & Product Support · MedLive
bbroad.eth · Hudson, MA
Professional Background
I've spent nearly 18 years in Agile software delivery, focused on QA, product support, and operations leadership. Today I'm Director of QA & Product Support at MedLive (formerly PlatformQ), where I lead a QA team, own release management end-to-end, and act as the front line for support across a multi-app healthcare SaaS platform. My focus lately: making quality a gate, not an afterthought, and keeping delivery sustainable for a lean team.
QA Automation & AI Tooling
I led a rebuild of our test approach over the past year around Claude and Playwright, going from mostly manual to 2000+ automated test cases, with a stub-first process so new features ship with tests baked in. Alongside that I'm deep in AI agent tooling for QA: automating the repetitive parts of my world like ticket triage, test spec generation, release candidate verification, and reporting. It's where process improvement and vibecoding meet my day job.
Web3
I've been active in the Ethereum and Solana ecosystems for close to a decade. I produce the EVMavericks Doots Podcast, coordinate grants for the EVMavericks DAO, and have been involved in governance, DeFi, and onchain community building on Farcaster. I hold bbroad.eth and run a Base wallet. The intersection of crypto infrastructure and operational reliability is where I want to spend more of my career.
Vibecoding
I build side projects using Claude, v0, and Cursor — things I actually want to exist. OkBoomer is an LLM-powered slang translator. BADTRADERS is a Farcaster-native competition for the worst traders in the ecosystem. VIBECODED is exactly what it sounds like. More to come.
Outside of Work
Live music, comedy shows, golf, craft beer, and way too much fantasy football.