Summary
Chad Lindstrom is a pragmatic full-stack tech lead and senior software engineer with 14 years of industry experience and over 20 years of hands-on work across systems, operations, backend and frontend disciplines. Based in Vancouver, he currently leads EA’s FUT Companion and Web App teams, shaping cross-product technical solutions that serve millions of daily users. He blends a strong academic foundation (BSc Computer Science with Distinction) with a proven track record of delivering large migrations, cost-savings initiatives, and faster mobile patch cadences that materially improved reliability and reduced operating costs. Comfortable from infrastructure to UX, his toolbox spans Python, Java, C#, TypeScript/React, multiple databases, and container/VM tooling, and he routinely mentors product and engineering leaders toward pragmatic delivery. Notably, he has a history of turning stalled initiatives into successful, maintainable platforms and driving measurable business impact beyond pure engineering.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BSc. Computer Science, BSc. Computer Science at University of Victoria
Guidelines for the New Manager Executive Education, Guidelines for the New Manager Executive Education at Sauder School of Business