Summary
Chad Baldwin is a data engineer with eight years of hands-on experience building and tuning databases, ETL pipelines, and back-end services for SaaS products in the Los Angeles area. MCSA-certified in Database Development, he excels in schema design, normalization, and query/index optimization and has repeatedly reduced runtime and resource usage through deep execution-plan analysis. His background spans SQL Server HA/DR, C# services, PowerShell automation, and AWS tooling, with practical experience integrating third-party data providers and supporting complex calculation engines. Comfortable in Agile and traditional SDLCs, Chad pairs independent problem-solving with strong cross-team collaboration to deliver reliable data platforms. An early-career IT generalist, he also brings pragmatic ops experience—from virtualization and network monitoring to client-facing data triage—which helps him bridge development and production reliability.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Information Systems/Computer Science, 3.5878, Computer Information Systems/Computer Science, 3.5878 at Riverside Community College