Chad B.

Chad B.

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.

AI, ML & LLM

Frontend

Backend

Database

DevOps

Other

Work history

UpStack
UpStack
Senior Software Engineer
2018 - Present (7 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.

Showcase

Project Jarvis
Project Jarvis
  • Project Jarvis was a DLA (digital life assistant) similar to Google Home or Siri.

  • It was designed and developed by the program's creators, including eight different communication methods.

  • The project utilized tweeting, instant messaging, and speech recognition as key communication channels.

Twitter Spam Assassin
Twitter Spam Assassin
  • A personal project focused on processing the public Twitter timeline and identifying spammers.

  • Utilized Python and AWS technologies for high-performance data processing and search.

  • Resulted in the discovery of over 700,000 spamming accounts.

Lightning Network
Lightning Network
  • Lightning Network is a layer 2 Bitcoin implementation.

  • It enables faster and near-instant transactions.

  • The daemon is designed for developer friendliness and application development.

Marvel Coin
Marvel Coin
  • Creates a cryptocurrency with two-factor authentication for enhanced security.

  • Allows users to send coins to email addresses instead of public keys, simplifying verification.

  • Includes confirmation codes for secure transaction confirmation.

Education

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