Chad Boyda
CTO, Head Of Product at AppSumo
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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SeniorChad Boyda is a seasoned technology executive and founder with 14 years of experience building product-led businesses and teams from Austin, Texas. As CTO and Head of Product at AppSumo since 2010, he blends data-driven development, lean startup principles, and machine learning to guide product strategy and engineering execution. He has a long track record of founding and scaling consumer and social platforms—growing Skinz.org to millions of monthly pageviews and Player Axis to over 3 million players—while monetizing through creative advertising and viral growth. Earlier roles include hands-on engineering and leadership across Windows and .NET development, P2P applications, and contextual advertising, giving him end-to-end technical fluency. Colleagues describe him as an entrepreneurial operator who pivots between code, product, and go-to-market thinking, able to ship fast without losing sight of metrics. He often pairs practical experimentation with scalable systems design, bringing uncommon depth in both growth engineering and product strategy.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (53)
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api9
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sanitization8
validate8
render8
information-retrieval8
approximate-nearest-neighbor-search8
stream8
vector8
validation8
javascript8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
appsumo/phantom-render-stream
Jun 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:9 releases, 12 pushes, 11 tags in 1 year
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