CHAD SMITH

VP, PLATFORM ENGINEERING

Wichita, Kansas
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(316) 712-4310


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ABOUT

Full stack engineer with a passion for, and focus on, emerging technologies, process oriented applications, automation, platform development, data interoperability, security, and team leadership. Experienced in agency, enterprise and startup environments. Developed multiple technology products from concept through design, development, launch, and support, leading both in-person and remote teams.

WORK EXPERIENCE

VP, Platform Engineering, Scout

November 2014 - Present

Founding team member – developing on Scout's apps and core platforms

HIGHLIGHTS

  • Responsible for Scout's APIs, back end processes, mobile apps, video services, monitoring, dealer and third-party integrations
  • Developed internal, customer and partner-facing dashboards powered by React, React Native and Electron
  • Developed internal services for managing camera connectivity, video streams, event streaming and transcoding
  • Developed Scout Alarm for iOS, Apple Watch, Android, Android Wear, Amazon Alexa and Google Home

Developer, Sullivan Higdon & Sink

March 2009 - October 2014

Lead developer for a full-service advertising agency

HIGHLIGHTS

  • Concepted and coded several award winning mobile apps and websites
  • Started as lone developer and grew the team and interactive business from the ground up
  • Responsible for project planning and budgeting, wireframing, app and site development, hardware hacking, devops/server administration and continuous integration deployment
  • Technologies used include Node.JS, PHP, various databases and frameworks, Arduino, LeapMotion and a lot of HTML

Marketing Specialist, Bunting Magnetics Co.

September 2007 - March 2009

Responsible for trade shows, online marketing campaigns, web development and server administration

HIGHLIGHTS

  • Wrote a custom analytics platform to track leads from internet marketing campaigns in realtime
  • Automated legacy Oracle/Access based sales reporting tasks using Salesforce CRM
  • Optimized website search results which led to a 600% YOY increase in online orders
  • Technologies used include Oracle and Access databases, ColdFusion and JavaScript

VOLUNTEER WORK

Organizer, Startup Wichita

April 2013 -

Coordinated to bring Startup Weekend and various entrepreneurial events to Wichita

SKILLS

Languages

Node.JS JavaScript HTML CSS Java Objective-C PHP Ruby Python Kotlin Swift C++ C C# ASP Perl ColdFusion

Mobile Development

Android iOS React Native

Databases

DynamoDB MySQL MongoDB Redis CouchDB PostgreSQL MsSQL Oracle RethinkDB SimpleDB

Technologies

Arduino Wireless communication / tracking Electronic prototyping Audio search Sentiment analysis Computer vision Object & gesture recognition Kinect 3D sensing ARKit ARCore React VR Wearables

APIs

Amazon Web Services Email / email marketing GIS / Mapping Finance / Banking CRM Social media Hardware Twilio Stripe Recurly Phaxio IFTTT Amazon Echo Google Assistant

EDUCATION

Master, Business Administration - Wichita State University

January 2007 -

Bachelor, Business Administration - Emporia State University

August 2005 - December 2006

AWARDS

Hacker Olympics - Place[0] - Twilio

18 September 2013

Champion of the 2013 TwilioCon Hacker Olympics

PUBLICATIONS

Wichita Business Journal
Cover Story: Live here, work anywhere

20 April 2018

Motherboard
A Kansas Developer Was Fired for Subverting the Kansas.com Paywall

13 October 2014

Wichita Business Journal
Smith takes developer's do-it-yourself skills to the art of home brewing

21 April 2014

PC Magazine
Google Glass Gets Unofficial AdSense, Analytics Apps

25 July 2013

Marketing Land
Google Glass App Brings AdSense Reporting To Your Eye

24 July 2013

Twilio
Chad Smith Wins our OpenVBX Contest With His Stripe Payments Plugin

06 July 2011

Wichita Business Journal
Wichitan boards bus full of entrepreneurs in startup contest

08 March 2011

Ajaxian
jQuery one-line plugin to crash IE6

31 March 2010

Lifehacker
Synchronize Google Voice with Your GPS Location

24 February 2010

Mashable
First Google Wave Firefox Add-on is Here: Google Wave Notifier

14 October 2009

The Next Web
Google Wave Notifier makes Waving a little less painful

14 October 2009