Chad Birch
Senior Software Engineer at Lexmark
Stanton, Kentucky, United States
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Top SchoolChad Birch is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years building full-stack and cloud-native systems, currently owning authentication and authorization for Lexmark’s Cloud Services. Comfortable across C#, Java, Python, Ruby, and TypeScript, he integrates B2C Azure identity offerings into Docker/Kubernetes pipelines and has deep experience on both frontend and backend codebases. An active open-source contributor, he’s worked on historically important projects like reddit and the PRAW Python Reddit API Wrapper, adding moderation and UI features that touch core platform behaviors. Based in rural eastern Kentucky, he pairs pragmatic engineering with community-minded volunteerism and a creative outlet as a drummer — a blend that surfaces in practical home automation projects he maintains on GitHub.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Eastern Kentucky University
English
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Github Skills (65)
python10
security10
vim10
e-mail10
praw10
validation10
editor10
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reddit10
sql10
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sqlite10
mysql10
r-api10
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
reddit-archive/reddit
Mar 2012 - Oct 2016
historical code from reddit.com
Role in this project:
Back-end & Front-end Developer
Back-end & Front-end DeveloperContributions:489 commits, 22 PRs, 122 pushes in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Chad contributed to both front-end and back-end aspects of the reddit project. Their work includes features like spam comment filtering, handling of comments, and setting sticky posts, showing their involvement in core functionalities. They modified both back-end files in Python and Javascript, showing their familiarity with both front and backend frameworks. The user also made improvements to the user interface and display functionality of the reddit website.
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praw-dev/praw
Jan 2012 - Feb 2015
PRAW, an acronym for "Python Reddit API Wrapper", is a python package that allows for simple access to Reddit's API.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Chad focused on enhancing the backend functionality of the PRAW library. Their commits introduced features for moderation tasks, including spam and modqueue management, along with the ability to distinguish comments and submissions. Furthermore, they updated the API paths within the configuration, and added new functionality by implementing features like unmoderated listings. They also expanded the API with a message retrieval function and adjusted the removal functionalities.
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