Chad Norwood
Self Employed
Berkeley, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChad Norwood is a seasoned software architect and engineering leader based in Berkeley with over 20 years building web, email, e-commerce, and advertising systems and 15 years of hands-on professional experience. He blends deep full-stack expertise—from front-end and back-end development to devops, databases, and distributed systems—with more than eight years managing teams to deliver measurable, data-driven outcomes. Known for a pragmatic, solution-oriented approach, he prefers open source tooling where it fits and has worn roles across the stack including QA, ops, architecture, and technical project leadership. Chad has led engineering at both startups and larger organizations (including director-level roles at EMX by Big Village and Engine Media Group) while also running his own consulting practice since the late 1990s. He’s valued for turning complex requirements into practical, high-quality deliverables and for enabling engineers to grow and perform at their best. A detail people don’t always expect: he’s equally comfortable diving into low-level infrastructure and shipping polished front-end experiences.
15 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., B.S. at Virginia Tech
Stackoverflow
259reputation
52kreached
1answer
2questions
Github Skills (29)
filter9
wsdl8
google-apps-script8
syncthing8
apps-script7
openstreetmap7
soap7
icalendar7
google-apps7
flickr7
soap-client7
jql6
macos6
heroku6
google-chrome6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
chadn/heroku-worker
Mar 2013 - May 2013
Contributions:63 commits in 1 month
herokubackground-tasksnode-jsjavascriptnodejs
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