Chad Boyd
Founder & Principal AI Automation Strategist
Nixa, Missouri, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChad Boyd is a founder and Principal AI Automation Strategist with 15 years of software experience and a 30+-year full-stack development background who helps SMBs scale without adding headcount by designing pragmatic, reliable automations and AI agents. As CEO of Overland Addict and founder of Scaile Agency, he builds systems that automate task routing, voice AI intake, appointment booking, lead follow-ups, and cross-system syncing to stop revenue leakage and streamline operations. He favors practical toolchains—n8n, OpenAI, Google Gemini, Anthropic Claude and others—delivering focused solutions rather than flashy prototypes, and recently recovered multiple five figures for a client by fixing a silent task-handoff failure. Chad’s open-source contributions include impactful back-end work on well-known Ruby projects like savon (SOAP client) and the Spree eCommerce platform, demonstrating deep expertise in API and integration problems. Based in Nixa, Missouri, he combines entrepreneurial grit with hands-on engineering and a history of founding and consulting across industries, from payments to hospitality. Notably, his background in construction and criminal justice studies gives him a systems-oriented, pragmatic approach to operational complexity that translates into durable automation designs.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
The FoundationCriminal Justice, Criminal Justice at Murray State UniversityConstruction Management, Construction Management at University of Louisiana MonroeConstruction Management, Construction Management at Missouri State University
Github Skills (19)
ruby-rails10
ecommerce10
rails10
soap10
ruby10
solidus10
commerce10
xml10
spree10
soap-client10
ruby-on-rails10
spreed10
testing9
rspec8
git8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
savonrb/savon
Feb 2012 - Jun 2012
Heavy metal SOAP client
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 2 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Chad primarily contributed to the `savonrb/savon` project, a Ruby SOAP client. Their work involved implementing features for certificate signing and WSSE verification. They also made improvements to the API, allowing soap actions to be set via a key, and refactored the internal code to support the use of namespaces from the operation.
metalrubygemsrubysoapheavy-metal
spree/spree
Oct 2011 - Mar 2012
An open source eCommerce platform giving you full control and customizability. Modular and API-first. Multi-vendor, multi-tenant, multi-store, multi-currency, multi-language. Built using Ruby on Rails. Developed by @vendo-dev
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Chad's contributions focused on improving the Spree e-commerce platform's core functionality. They fixed a reference issue and made enhancements to the address cloning process. Additionally, the user refactored code by allowing the use of symbols in place of procs for success and failure handlers and made changes that impacted the order model. Furthermore, the user updated the code to use states_url instead of states_path.
multi-sourceecommercemulti-languagespreecommerceshopware
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