Chad Selph
Staff Software Engineer at Swiftly, Inc.
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolChad Selph is a Staff Software Engineer in San Francisco with 15 years of experience building reliable, high-throughput systems across telecom and real-time platforms. He specializes in strongly typed functional languages—especially Scala—and has led teams that designed SMPP servers, streaming Kafka/Kinesis pipelines, and microservices for SMS carrier integrations and cost accounting. At Twilio he shipped core messaging infrastructure, led an international engineering team, and became the in-house expert on SMS character encoding, even shipping a viral Erlang demo for Unicode SMS. He now focuses on platform-level engineering at Swiftly, bringing deep distributed-systems expertise, a pragmatic DevOps background, and a track record of turning protocol-level complexity into testable, production-ready services.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Washington State University
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Github Skills (200)
amazon-kinesis10
swagger10
openapi10
client-library10
api10
sbt-plugin10
api-server10
amazon10
sms-messages10
api-client10
sms10
rest-api10
gleam10
artifact10
kinesis-stream10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
chadselph/akka-smpp
Mar 2014 - Apr 2017
Contributions:72 commits, 2 PRs, 12 pushes in 3 years 1 month
scalaakkasmpp
chadselph/smssplit
Apr 2014 - Aug 2020
UI to explain how messages are split in SMS
Contributions:10 commits, 8 pushes, 5 comments in 6 years 5 months
explainsplitsmspython-scriptpython3
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