Chad Scharf
Web Developer at Absence Soft, LLC
Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChad Scharf is a Web Developer with nine years of hands-on experience building user-focused products and leading teams with a servant-leadership mindset. He blends front-end and back-end expertise—contributing to high-profile open-source work on Bitwarden’s web vault, clients, and server by implementing soft-delete flows, UI improvements, and database schema optimizations. Chad emphasizes collaboration, transparency, and managed delegation to deliver practical solutions that improve everyday user experiences. His technical foundation is backed by an AS in IT Network Engineering, a BS in IT Business Management, and an MBA with a project management minor, reflecting a strong mix of engineering and business judgment. Based in Ponte Vedra Beach, he brings thoughtful analysis to both product design and implementation, often focusing on data persistence and reliable client-server interactions that aren’t always visible to end users.
9 years of coding experience
Associate of Science - AS, IT Network Engineering, Associate of Science - AS, IT Network Engineering at ITT Technical InstituteBachelor of Science - BS, IT Business Management, Bachelor of Science - BS, IT Business Management at Colorado Technical University
Github Skills (31)
javascript10
apidoc10
typescript10
asp-net-core10
asp-net10
sql-server10
api10
sql10
database-design10
typescript-types10
dotnet-core10
html10
typescripts10
backend10
csharp10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
bitwarden/server
Mar 2020 - Aug 2022
Bitwarden infrastructure/backend (API, database, Docker, etc).
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 releases, 657 reviews, 169 commits in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Chad's contributions primarily focused on the backend infrastructure of the Bitwarden server. Their work involved modifying database schemas, specifically addressing soft delete functionality for the Cipher table and related stored procedures. The user also updated repositories and core code, along with index alterations, which indicates a focus on data persistence, database optimization, and API improvements within the C# .NET Core framework.
database-apisql-serverdockersignalrdatabase
bitwarden/web
Apr 2020 - Mar 2022
The website vault (vault.bitwarden.com).
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 378 reviews, 72 commits in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Chad primarily focused on front-end development tasks within the Bitwarden web vault. Their contributions included implementing soft delete functionality, enabling copy/view operations in the trash, and collecting tax information for payments. The user also worked on the register page layout, along with fixing and updating UI elements, and resolving merge conflicts.
javascriptvaultangularbootstraptypescript
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