Chad Ellison
Staff Software Engineer at Buoy Software
Hurst, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChad Ellison is a Staff Software Engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building production web applications using Ruby on Rails and React. He has progressed through senior engineering and management roles at companies like Allstate, Logikcull, Fluxx, and Buoy Software, where he now focuses on scalable backend systems and elegant frontend interactions. Known for a love of algorithms and clean code, he brings both technical depth and practical leadership to cross-functional teams. His background uniquely blends a formal CS bootcamp education with earlier studies in philosophy and fine art, which informs a thoughtful, design-minded approach to problem solving. Based in Hurst, Texas, Chad favors crafting maintainable systems that balance performance with readability.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts (M.A.) Philosophy of Religion, Master of Arts (M.A.) Philosophy of Religion at Denver SeminaryFull-Stack Developer Computer Software Engineering, Full-Stack Developer Computer Software Engineering at Turing School of Software & DesignBachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) Studio Art, Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) Studio Art at University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Github Skills (8)
testing5
docker4
devops3
kubernetes3
cicd3
lightning1
bitcoin1
julia1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
chadellison/chess-client
Aug 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 203 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
chadellison/spacetime-wars-server
Feb 2020 - Nov 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 95 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 9 months
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