Chad Magendanz
Computer Science Teacher at Bellevue School District
Issaquah, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChad Magendanz is an experienced software engineer turned educator with over two decades building consumer and platform software, including work on Microsoft Office and Windows. He combines deep technical skill in UI, hardware/software interaction, rapid prototyping, and AR/VR with a track record of shipping prototypes in modern frameworks like WPF that migrate into production. Chad has led product and UX efforts across startups and enterprise teams—most recently as Chief Experience Officer at Voter Science—while also teaching computer science in local schools and earning a Masters of Arts in Teaching. A practiced public speaker, he has briefed congressional staffers, state attorneys general, and presented alongside Bill Gates to worldwide audiences, reflecting rare experience bridging technical, policy, and education worlds. His background as a Navy nuclear officer and early creator of cross-platform utilities like ShrinkWrap underscores a pragmatic engineering approach and comfort with complex, safety-critical systems.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Legislative Energy Horizon Institute (LEHI), Energy policy planning program, Legislative Energy Horizon Institute (LEHI), Energy policy planning program at University of IdahoBS, Electrical and Computer Engineering, BS, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell UniversityMasters of Arts in Teaching, EDUCATION, GPA: 3.962, Masters of Arts in Teaching, EDUCATION, GPA: 3.962 at Central Washington UniversityNuclear Engineering, GPA: 3.5, Nuclear Engineering, GPA: 3.5 at Navy Nuclear Power School
Github Skills (11)
geofencing8
plugin7
topology6
npm6
nodejs6
npm-package6
rest6
filter5
react5
rest-client5
typescript4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Voter-Science/trc.geofence
Aug 2016 - Feb 2023
GeoFencing plugin for TRC
Contributions:10 PRs, 16 pushes, 3 comments in 6 years 7 months
geofencing
Voter-Science/TrcLibNpm
Aug 2016 - Sep 2024
Core TRC rest client for Node, with NPM package.
Contributions:2 reviews, 1 PR, 24 pushes in 8 years 2 months
npm-packagerest-clientnodejsrestnpm
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