Chad Berkley is a seasoned software engineering leader with 21 years of experience building and scaling enterprise systems, currently serving as VP of Engineering in Portland, Oregon. He has repeatedly delivered production-grade DBaaS and cloud-native platforms—driving Timescale Cloud to thousands of instances and building an enterprise Postgres/Cassandra DBaaS at GEICO in six months. Chad combines strategic vision with hands-on execution, scaling teams rapidly (20→80 in six months) and introducing formal professional development and compliance programs like SOC2 Type II. He excels at bridging technical and non-technical stakeholders across Sales, Finance, HR and Marketing to align engineering with business outcomes. Known for moving fast without sacrificing reliability, he has led high-throughput data ingest initiatives and architected large-scale data lakes that power analytic products.
22 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Montana
High School Diploma With Honors, High School Diploma With Honors at Sandpoint High School
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