Chad Barraford
Co-Founder at THORChain
Brookline, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolChad Barraford is a seasoned software and DevOps engineer with 14 years of experience building scalable infrastructure and cloud platforms, now serving as Co-Founder of THORChain. He has led and grown engineering teams through acquisitions, automated large-scale deployments, and built production tooling—from haproxy config generators to Sensu dashboards—while reducing operational turnaround times dramatically. Chad has held executive technical roles including CTO at Skyy Network, where he designed blockchain-based air traffic management on Cosmos, and founded multiple startups, demonstrating strong entrepreneurial instincts. Hands-on across the stack, he’s contributed DevOps work to the widely used sous-chefs/java cookbook, improving Java configuration, testing, and Windows packaging. Based in Brookline, MA, he blends systems-level automation with product-focused engineering, often preferring pragmatic, homegrown solutions over one-size-fits-all tools. Collected experience from consumer support at Apple to platform engineering at RStudio gives him a rare mix of customer empathy and deep infrastructure expertise.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BA Psychology, BA Psychology at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
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Github Skills (14)
javas10
chef-client10
cookbook10
chef-solo10
java10
testing10
githubaction-workflow7
github-ci7
packaging6
autodesk-forge6
conflict6
python6
ruby6
autodesk-viewer6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
sous-chefs/java
Jun 2017 - Nov 2018
Development repository for the java cookbook
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Chad primarily contributed to the configuration and testing aspects of the Java cookbook. Their work included updating default Java versions in attributes files, merging pull requests, and modifying specifications. They also worked on installing JCE, updating tests, and configuring Windows package installation using the windows recipe.
cookbookjava-8java11chef-resourcejava
slopp/docker-r
Aug 2014 - Nov 2017
Build docker images for R (3.0.0 and up)
Contributions:13 commits in 3 years 3 months
docker-builddocker-imagedockerdocker-images
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