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.
15 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 (27)
plugin7
react7
copilot6
react-native6
neovim4
agent3
python3
vim3
nvim3
snapshot-testing3
react-navigation3
ollama3
llm2
typescript2
gemini2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
chadmckenna/dotfiles
Jan 2015 - May 2026
Contributions:4 PRs, 38 pushes, 4 branches in 11 years 5 months
vimtmuxtmux-configurationconfiguration-filesneovim
chadmckenna/flownote-v2
Apr 2022 - Jun 2025
Contributions:12 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 2 months
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