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Bradley Hicken

Bradley Hicken is a software developer with 14+ years of experience in .Net technologies. He has worked in a variety of different fields from banking software, state government, to custom solutions that are tailored to fit the problem at hand. He has experience running software development teams in agile environments and loves to put an emphasis on making the team better by learning new things and passing them on to those he works with. Some of his current interests include diving into Blazor and learning how to practice coding to keep his skills sharp.

From 38 Seconds to 1.5: A Claude Code Performance Win

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A sluggish ASP.NET page with 3,850 checkboxes was taking 38 seconds to load. By collaborating with Claude Code and shifting to client-side rendering, load times dropped to just 1.5 seconds — a 25× performance boost. Here’s how AI-assisted refactoring transformed the page and the development process.