Chad Etzel
Independent at Notifo
Atlanta Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolChad Etzel is a seasoned full-stack engineer and founder with 16 years of experience building mobile web and native applications, currently operating as an independent developer in the Atlanta area. He founded Notifo and JazzyChad Network, combining product vision with hands-on engineering, and spent six years at Apple after senior iOS roles at Twitter, Jelly, and Twilio. Chad bridges consumer-facing mobile UX and backend systems, shipping polished apps and infrastructure while also contributing to open-source projects like shazow/ssh-chat where he improved security and operational tooling. Comfortable leading teams and shipping end-to-end products, he brings entrepreneurial grit and a systems-oriented background from early work on network routing firmware at Cisco.
16 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (9)
server-side10
go10
server10
ssh10
security9
chat9
command-line-interface8
command-line8
cli8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
shazow/ssh-chat
Dec 2014 - Dec 2014
Chat over SSH.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Chad focused on enhancing the ssh-chat server's functionality. They added features like a message of the day (MOTD) display and configuration, including the ability to load the MOTD from a file. Furthermore, they implemented an optional fingerprint whitelisting mechanism for enhanced security and operator commands like `/whitelist`. The user also refined the existing codebase, cleaning up command structures and user interface elements.
chatsshssh-chatserver
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