Chad Cravens
Founder & CTO at Shadow-Soft
Atlanta Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolChad Cravens is a founder and CTO with 11 years of hands-on experience building secure, high-performance enterprise systems across government, finance, and startups. He blends deep expertise in Java, C++, PHP, MySQL and J2EE with practical DevSecOps practices—helping organizations automate builds and deployments with Jenkins, Git and Maven while championing zero-trust data security. Chad has led secure code analysis and hardened mission-critical platforms for DISA and SPAWAR, and has experience designing low-latency trading systems on Wall Street and scalable data pipelines using Hadoop. An entrepreneur at heart, he runs two companies focused on open source, data at scale, and applied cyber security, and builds algorithmic tooling to generate complex data models across stacks. Colleagues know him as a pragmatic engineer with a strong work ethic who prefers “talk less, code more” and thrives on turning complex requirements into auditable, production-ready solutions.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Information Technology, B.S. Information Technology at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Spanish
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Github Skills (200)
automation10
keycloak10
http-proxy10
python10
cordova-plugin10
ansible-role10
ssh10
bare-metal10
kubernetes10
envoyproxy10
ingress-controller10
high-availability10
websocket10
nodejs-library10
saml10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
ossys/cyber-server
Jun 2019 - Oct 2019
Contributions:164 pushes in 3 months
ossys/BigScience
Jun 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:70 pushes, 3 branches, 1 comment in 1 month
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