Chad Smith
Vice President Of Engineering at Sezzle
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolChad Smith is a transformational technology executive with 13 years of experience scaling engineering organizations and products, now serving as Vice President of Engineering at Sezzle in Pittsburgh. He has led teams of 30+ engineers across microservices (Go) and React/React Native front-ends, driving a 76% increase in production releases and improvements in CI/CD, testing, and incident response. Chad combines product-minded engineering with payments and compliance expertise from Blackhawk Network, where he led tokenization, cloud migrations, and PCI/SOX-aligned programs that supported high-value revenue growth. He’s hands-on in architecture work—building BFF prototypes, loyalty systems, and decoupling monoliths into microservices—to shorten time-to-market while improving reliability. Known for pragmatic process improvements, he also brings an entrepreneurial streak from founding two startups and practical experience shipping both browser-first and mobile-first customer experiences. His MBA in Marketing complements his technical leadership by aligning engineering delivery with business and go-to-market priorities.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Marketing, 4.0, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Marketing, 4.0 at Indiana University of PennsylvaniaBachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering at DeVry University
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Github Skills (130)
resumable-upload10
javascript10
html10
mobile-first10
cropper10
protractor10
bootstrap10
css10
sass10
responsive10
orientation10
multiupload10
chunked9
jquery9
tus9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
hppycoder/gulpNgPittsburgh
May 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:24 pushes, 2 branches in 9 days
hppycoder/angularLocalStorage
Jan 2015 - Jan 2015
Contributions:13 pushes, 12 branches, 1 tag in 4 days
localstoragesimplesteverangular
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