Chad Husko
Founder And CEO at Iris Light Technologies
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChad Husko is a scientist-turned-founder and CEO with 15+ years of research and project leadership experience and eight years leading Iris Light Technologies to tackle the silicon photonics “silicon laser” challenge using nanomaterials. He combines deep academic training (Ph.D., Columbia) and fellowships at Argonne and the University of Sydney with startup grit, translating experimental optics research into commercial strategy and IP. As an I-Corps principal investigator and former Alexei Abrikosov Fellow, he blends technical planning, experimental rigor, and market-driven product validation. Based in Chicago, he’s equally comfortable in the lab and the boardroom, known for a dry developer wit (Github bio: “give me a ports tree or give me death”) that hints at hands-on, systems-minded problem solving.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., B.S. at Loyola University ChicagoM.S., M.S. at Columbia University in the City of New YorkM.A., M.A. at New York University
English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese
Github Skills (43)
activity-tracking10
kde-plasma10
activity-tracker10
tiling9
dwm9
tiles9
command-line-interface9
time-tracking9
window-manager9
toggl9
giphy9
command-line-tool8
linux8
keyboard8
tui7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
bladedvox/bladedvox
Aug 2020 - Aug 2023
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
bladedvox/webring
May 2021 - Jan 2023
Make yourself a website
Contributions:4 pushes in 1 year 8 months
javascript
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