Chad Mckenna
Principal Software Engineer at Tonic
Lakewood, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChad Mckenna is a Principal Software Engineer with 14 years building enterprise web applications across the full stack, currently shaping architecture and delivery at Tonic. He combines deep hands-on experience with Ruby on Rails, Node/Express, Python/Flask, and modern front-end frameworks like React with strong database expertise in MySQL, Postgres and MongoDB. Chad has led agile teams, prototyped ML feasibility studies using Keras and NLTK, and built internal developer tooling at scale, showing a knack for balancing product needs with technical tradeoffs. Based in Lakewood, Colorado, he spends most days writing JavaScript but retains a pragmatic appreciation for simpler, reliable solutions honed over a decade-plus of diverse production systems.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Math and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Math and Computer Science at Colorado School of Mines
ruby, coffeescript, haml, javascript, python, perl, sass, php, java
Github Skills (19)
python3
visual-regression-testing3
snapshot-testing3
testing3
react2
test-automation2
syntax-highlighting2
highlighting2
syntax2
typescript1
spanish1
extjs1
webassembly1
wasmer1
jsx1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
chadmckenna/dotfiles
Jan 2015 - Mar 2025
Contributions:4 PRs, 34 pushes, 4 branches in 10 years 3 months
vimtmuxtmux-configurationconfiguration-filesneovim
chadmckenna/flownote-v2
Apr 2022 - Feb 2025
Contributions:11 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 10 months
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