Chad Nelson
Sr. Software Engineer at Chaddington Software Studio, LLC
Ankeny, Iowa, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChad Nelson is a senior software engineer with 12 years of experience building high-performance, security-conscious systems across embedded, simulation, and web domains from Iowa. He led development of BroadSim, a CUDA-accelerated GNSS simulator that delivers market-leading latency and supports military signals, and has managed multimillion-dollar contracts and secure Yocto-based OS builds with SELinux hardening. As an entrepreneur he shipped consumer and niche tooling—including a DAWG-based Scrabble solver and a Unity game autosplitter—and built a regulatory web app used by ag customers. Comfortable in C++, C#, Python, Qt, Yocto, and cloud tooling, he pairs deep low-level optimization skills with practical product delivery. Outside work he’s an avid runner, chess and piano player, and keeps a hacker mindset—often reverse-engineering games and squeezing microsecond gains from complex systems.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Computer Engineering at Iowa State University
Github Skills (37)
cpp8
usrp7
driver7
windows7
cmake7
angularjs7
c-library7
fpga6
angular-meteor6
package-manager6
uhd6
openembedded6
swig6
visual-studio6
linux6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
cnelson711/livesplit.autosplitter.dysonsphereprogram
Feb 2021 - Jul 2021
Contributions:34 commits, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
cnelson711/rEFInd
Jul 2019 - Jul 2019
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch, 7 tags in 1 day
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