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Rod Anadon

Glen Bradford's high school programming teacher. The man who planted the first seed of what would become a career in code. They're still in touch to this day.

High School — IndianaStill in touch

The Arc

Somewhere in an Indiana high school, Rod Anadon taught a programming class. One of his students was a kid named Glen Bradford — full of energy, directionally challenged, and about to discover the one thing that would define his entire professional life.

Rod planted a seed. That seed grew into Excel financial models for a hedge fund. Then a 10+ year Salesforce career at Innovate! Inc. Then Cloud Nimbus LLC — Glen's own company. Then Delivery Hub, a Salesforce-native project management platform. Then a 790-page website built with Next.js, TypeScript, and Claude Code. Then a 3D kitesurfing game in raw Three.js.

All of it — every line of code Glen has ever written, every system he's ever designed, every component he's ever shipped — traces back to Rod Anadon's classroom. That's the kind of impact a great teacher has. They don't just teach a subject. They change the entire trajectory of a life.

The Timeline

High School

Programming Teacher

Glen Bradford's High School — Indiana

Rod Anadon taught programming in an Indiana high school. One of his students was a kid named Glen Bradford who had a lot of energy, a lot of ideas, and was about to discover the one thing that would stick with him for the rest of his life. Rod didn't just teach syntax — he showed Glen that you could tell a computer what to do and it would actually listen.

The Seed Takes Root

Glen Starts Building

From Classroom to Career

What started in Rod's classroom became a trajectory. Glen went on to build Excel financial models for a hedge fund, then pivoted into Salesforce development — writing APEX, building Lightning Web Components, and shipping enterprise software. The programming fundamentals Rod taught were the foundation for all of it.

10+ Years of Salesforce

The Career Rod Made Possible

Innovate! Inc. → Cloud Nimbus LLC

A decade of professional Salesforce development. Implementations for the EPA, Georgia State University, UCI. Then Glen founded Cloud Nimbus and built Delivery Hub — a Salesforce-native project management platform. Every line of APEX traces back to a high school programming class.

790+ Pages Later

glenbradford.com

Built with Next.js, TypeScript & Claude Code

Glen built a 790-page website in Next.js and TypeScript using Claude Code. Calculators, interactive tools, a 3D kitesurfing game in Three.js, shrine pages for the people who matter. This page is one of them. Rod probably didn't see this coming when he was grading assignments.

Decades Later

Still in Touch

The Relationship That Lasted

Most people lose track of their high school teachers. Glen didn't. He remembers every teacher he's ever had, and Rod is one of the ones he still talks to. That says something about both of them — the teacher who made an impact, and the student who never forgot it.

What Rod Brings

Programming Education

Rod taught programming at the high school level — the kind of foundational education that gives students the tools to build anything. He didn't just teach a language. He taught a way of thinking.

Mentorship

The best teachers don't just transfer knowledge — they change trajectories. Rod changed Glen's. Not by telling him what to become, but by handing him a tool powerful enough to become anything.

Planting Seeds

A teacher plants seeds they may never see bloom. Rod planted one in a high school classroom in Indiana. It grew into a hedge fund career, a Salesforce practice, a startup, and a 790-page website.

Staying Connected

Decades after the classroom, Rod and Glen are still in touch. The kind of teacher-student relationship that outlasts the course, the school, and the years. That's rare, and it matters.

How I Know Rod

High school — he taught me programming

Rod Anadon was my programming teacher in high school. That single fact explains more about my career than anything else on this entire website. He taught me to code. I never stopped.

I remember every teacher I've ever had. Every single one. Rod gets special mention because what he taught me became the foundation for everything I've built professionally. The Salesforce career. Cloud Nimbus. Delivery Hub. This 790-page website. The 3D kitesurfing game. All of it is downstream of his classroom.

We're still in touch. That's the part that matters most to me. Decades later, the connection is still there. I appreciate all my teachers — Rod is one I still talk to. That says something about the kind of teacher he is: the kind whose impact doesn't end when the semester does.

Without Rod teaching me to code in high school, there's no Salesforce career. There's no Cloud Nimbus. There's no 790-page website built with Claude Code. The entire chain of events that led to everything I do today started in his classroom. I don't think he gets enough credit for that. So here it is.

Why He Matters

The Salesforce career — 10+ years of enterprise development, Lightning Web Components, implementations for the EPA and universities. Cloud Nimbus LLC — Glen's own company. Delivery Hub — a Salesforce-native project management platform built from scratch. This website — 790 pages of content, calculators, games, and shrine pages for the people who matter.

All of it traces back to a programming teacher in an Indiana high school. Rod Anadon didn't just teach a class. He handed a student a tool powerful enough to build anything — and that student never put it down. The best teachers don't just transfer knowledge. They change trajectories. Rod changed mine.

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