Summary
Chad Banks is a pragmatic software engineer and educator with eight years of professional experience building web and data-driven systems while teaching web development and scripting at Henry Ford College. He has held roles from CTO of a startup to engineering positions at e-commerce and enterprise firms, shipping PHP/JavaScript solutions, performing Linux system administration, and driving BI reporting with SQL and WebFOCUS. Chad blends hands-on implementation—HTML/CSS, PHP, MySQL, JS—with mentorship, having taught courses from HTML/CSS to PHP and JavaScript and run a developer Discord for indie game projects. Based in Taylor, Michigan, he’s comfortable bridging technical work and stakeholder needs, translating reporting and feature requirements into production-ready code and datasets. A self-starter, he launched freelance work early in his career and continues to explore indie game development alongside institutional software work.
8 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, General Studies, High School Diploma, General Studies at Harry S. Truman High
Software Engineering, Software Engineering at University of Michigan-Dearborn
Internet Web Associate Certification, Computer Science, A, Internet Web Associate Certification, Computer Science, A at Taylor Career and Technical Center
Associate of Applied Science, Computer Software Engineering, 3.96, Associate of Applied Science, Computer Software Engineering, 3.96 at Henry Ford Community College