Chad Mcelligott
Principal Platform Engineer
Huntsville, Alabama, United States
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Top SchoolChad Mcelligott is a Principal Platform Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building and scaling developer platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and distributed systems from startups to enterprise teams. Based in Huntsville, AL, he blends hands-on full-stack development with org-level engineering leadership—driving migrations to federated GraphQL, introducing SLOs, and standing up test environments to boost quality and velocity. He’s skilled at turning technical debt into maintainable services, mentoring through regular code review sessions and tech talks, and embedding “you build it, you run it” culture across teams. Notably, Chad pairs deep implementation work (Node.js, Go, AWS, Kubernetes, Ansible) with process changes that measurably reduce lead times and outages, making him a practical bridge between product goals and platform reliability.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at The University of Alabama in Huntsville
English
Stackoverflow
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27answers
4questions
npm
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ubuntu
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linux
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javascript
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Github Skills (200)
swagger10
oas10
http-client10
openapi10
operator10
client-library10
ecosystem10
swagger-ui10
api10
imap10
nodejs10
css10
controller10
api-client10
rest-api10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
chadxz/.vim
Nov 2015 - Oct 2024
my vim dotfiles
Contributions:1 PR, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 1 month
vimkarabinervim-dotfilesneovimdotfiles
codeforhuntsville/Frontier
May 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:17 commits, 24 PRs, 25 pushes in 5 months
reactfindingcivicwhatsnear
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