Chad Tolkien
Technical Director at Soda Digital
Gold Coast City, Queensland, Australia
Summary
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RockstarChad Tolkien is a seasoned Technical Director with 15 years delivering custom web and software solutions from the Gold Coast, leading Soda Digital’s work for major Australian clients like Samsung, No Birds Car Rental and The Starlight Children’s Foundation. He blends hands-on web development with strategic technical leadership, guiding large-scale projects from architecture through delivery. Known for turning complex business requirements into practical, maintainable systems, he emphasizes reliability and client-focused outcomes. Though primarily commercial, he maintains an active developer mindset—contributing to web projects at Soda Digital and staying close to code and delivery practices.
15 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
7,633reputation
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76answers
31questions
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html-table
top-1%
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json
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Github Skills (200)
atom-editor10
displays10
powerline10
linq10
command-line-interface10
azure-cli10
compression10
serverless10
computer-science10
swagger-tools10
middleware10
browser10
api10
html10
mapper10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
ctolkien/Slugify
Jun 2016 - Jan 2023
Simple Slug / Clean URL generator helper for Microsoft .NET framework / .NET Standard.
Contributions:23 reviews, 153 commits, 88 PRs in 6 years 7 months
kebab-caseslugifierdotnetmicrosoft-netslugify
ctolkien/GitHub2Clubhouse
Jun 2017 - Mar 2020
Contributions:10 commits, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 9 months
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