Chad Royal is a seasoned engineering leader and Sr. Technical Product Manager in Bellevue with over a decade of experience shipping developer tools, consumer mobile apps, and large-scale platform features. He combines hands-on technical curiosity—relearning languages, retro/embedded systems, and emulators during a recent sabbatical—with product rigor focused on developer experience, SLO-driven operations, and cross-team tooling. His background spans Microsoft platform and Visual Studio architecture, News and media device ecosystems, high-traffic consumer apps at Disney and Zulily, and now quality engineering at The Trade Desk, giving him deep fluency in release, on-call, and developer workflow challenges. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic prioritization, dogfooding-first validation, and hard trade-offs that accelerate engineering velocity. He’s as comfortable defining cloud architecture and service tiers as he is diving into code and electronics to prove a concept.
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Chad Royal - Sr Technical Product Manager at The Trade Desk