Chad Furman
Engineering Manager at FOSSA
South Hadley, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolChad Furman is an engineering manager and hands-on software leader with 13 years of professional experience and a scrappy startup engineering background dating to 2005. He has driven scalable systems and API standardization at scale—most recently at Klaviyo where his legacy migration and rendering refactor reduced churn risk for $5M MRR and cut errors by 90%. At Clevertech he led a 13-engineer team building a WebRTC product that earned an Engineering Emmy and supported rapid 10x growth through proactive monitoring and IaC. His open-source contributions include backend work on Mail-in-a-Box and enhancements to the Janus WebRTC gateway, showing a blend of security-hardening, quota management, and realtime media expertise. Based in South Hadley, MA, he combines deep full-stack chops (C, Node, Python, React/GraphQL, Postgres) with a proven record of mentoring engineers and shipping reliable, auditable systems. Notably, he pairs pragmatic startup grit with enterprise-grade processes—advocating standards like JSON:API to improve cross-team delivery.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced Regents Diploma with Honors, Advanced Regents Diploma with Honors at Duanesburg CentralBachelor of Science (B.S.) Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Mathematics and Computer Science at University at AlbanyAssociate of Science (A.S.) Computer Information Systems, Associate of Science (A.S.) Computer Information Systems at Hudson Valley Community CollegeNon-Matriculated Computer and Information Sciences General, Non-Matriculated Computer and Information Sciences General at Schenectady County Community College -- Non-Matriculated
java, python, perl, ruby, javascript, html, css, php, jasmine, jade, xpath
Stackoverflow
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mongodb
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debugging
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mongoose
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google-chrome
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Github Skills (28)
javascript10
sendmail10
python10
back-end-development10
send-email10
e-mail10
mailserver10
sql10
webrtc10
mongoose9
debugging9
smtp9
smtps9
server9
google-chrome9
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
meetecho/janus-gateway
Mar 2017 - Jan 2018
Janus WebRTC Server
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 7 PRs, 106 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Chad contributed to the Janus WebRTC Server by implementing features and making updates to the core JavaScript files. They introduced the ability to configure the screensharing frame rate and updated core JavaScript files related to the setup and initialization of Janus. The user also addressed code formatting inconsistencies and security-related configurations, such as disabling MD5, RC4, and SSL/TLS versions 2 and 3. This indicates a focus on functionality, usability, and secure communication within the WebRTC server.
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mail-in-a-box/mailinabox
Apr 2024 - Dec 2024
Mail-in-a-Box helps individuals take back control of their email by defining a one-click, easy-to-deploy SMTP+everything else server: a mail server in a box.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 reviews, 1 PR, 32 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Chad primarily focused on enhancing the mail server's functionality, particularly regarding user quotas. They implemented quota management features, including adding quota options during user creation, modifying quota settings, and integrating quota information within the user interface. Furthermore, the user made adjustments to the underlying database schema by introducing a quota column in the user table. The commits also include updates to the CLI scripts related to user management.
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