Summary
Chad Duffin is a Software Engineer III with a decade of experience building robust, portable systems at Google and YouTube, currently focused on Connectivity for Chrome OS. He drove cross-platform binary interoperability for Cobalt via the Starboard ABI and removed platform-specific graphics dependencies to improve portability and updatability. Comfortable across systems, tooling, and DevOps cultures, he has hands-on experience shipping security-sensitive media features into Chromium and designing platform-agnostic interfaces. A lifelong game developer, Chad continues to build his own title, The Fellowships of Yendor, which reflects both his technical breadth and creative drive. Known for pragmatic problem-solving and clear documentation, he blends production-grade engineering with a passion for quality and user-facing experiences. Based in California, he pairs systems-level thinking with a developer-first mindset that surfaces subtle portability and performance gains.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Senior, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Senior at California State University-Chico
Undeclared, general education., Undeclared, general education. at Palomar College
Computer Science, Computer Science at Butte College