Chad B.

Chad B.

Senior Software Engineer

Boston, Massachussetts, United States of America
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About Me

An experienced and innovative Senior Software Engineer who have been building full web applications for the last five years. Self motivated, focused, efficient and experienced in working at fast-paced environments. Motivated to work with clients and help them bring their product visions to life through line of codes which are easy to scale and maintain.

Work history

UpStack
UpStack
Senior Software Engineer
2018 - Present (6 years)
Remote
  • Creating and developing innovative software solutions for different clients across a broad range of industries.

Cryptocades
Cryptocades
CEO/Founder/Software Engineer
2017 - 2018 (1 year)
Boston, Massachussetts, United States of America
  • Built the company, hired people, did PR/press, managed team/expectations and wrote all of the code.

  • Built custom games that utilized cryptocurrency mining as a gaming mechanism.

RStudio, Inc.
RStudio, Inc.
Full Stack Software Engineer
2014 - 2018 (4 years)
Boston, Massachussetts, United States of America
  • Built and maintained the complete code of an “on-prem” web application.

  • Built a clone of idonethis.com for the company in my spare time. It was a tool loved the company to help more transparency between the teams.

  • Refactored the code base to support multiple databases, added active directory as authority provider, and refactored the API to be cleaner and simpler.

Cloudant
Cloudant
Lead Infrastructure Engineer
2013 - 2014 (1 year)
Boston, Massachussetts, United States of America
  • Built and maintained all of the infrastructure for a hosted database-as-a-service.

  • Built the the team and the infrastructure from scratch.

  • Took the company from 30 servers, to hundreds up until it was acquired by IBM.

Brightcove
Brightcove
Systems Engineer
2011 - 2013 (2 years)
Cambridge, Massachussetts, United States of America
  • Worked in a highly technical environment including multiple Linux Distributions (CentOS, Ubuntu), configuration management (CFEngine, Chef), a broadly deployed Nagios monitoring infrastructure (including writing simple and complex monitors) running a variety of open source and internally developed tools in highly-available, scalable deployments.

Portfolio

Project Jarvis
Project Jarvis

Project Jarvis was a DLA (digital life assistant), kind of like Google home or Siri before they existed. Designed and developed the program and the entire coding and had devised eight different ways of communicating with Jarvis, including tweeting, instant messaging, and speech recognition.

Twitter Spam Assassin
Twitter Spam Assassin

Twitter Spam Assassin was a personal project in which it delivered high performance python coding to process the public twitter timeline and search for spammers. Upon retiring the project it found over 700k spamming accounts. Technologies used: Python, AWS, MySql

Lightning Network
Lightning Network

Lightning network is a layer 2 implementation of bitcoin that allows faster and near instant transactions. The daemon has been designed to be as developer friendly as possible in order to facilitate application development on top of lnd. Two primary RPC interfaces are exported: an HTTP REST API, and a gRPC service.

Marvel Coin
Marvel Coin

This was creating a cryptocurrency (blockchain) from scratch that allowed for two-factor authentication on the protocol layer, making it the most secure cryptocurrency in the world in which when someone steals your private key(s), they cannot steal your funds. Human friendly addresses Marvel Coin also enables the ability to send coin(s) to an email address rather than a public key. This makes it easier for humans to verify they are sending to the right person. This feature is optional, for private transactions, new public keys can be generated on each transaction. Confirmation Codes adds the ability for the receiver to get a one-time-use pin which is required for the sender to enter to complete the transaction. This ensures that you can confirm that the person you want is the one actually getting the coin(s).

Education

Education
Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, 2006
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
2001 - 2006 (5 years)