Chad Upton
Head Of Engineering CTO at Section
Bradenton, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolChad Upton is a pragmatic technology leader and Head of Engineering/CTO with 11+ years of hands-on experience building resilient, secure cloud platforms and scaling engineering organizations. He has a track record of turning platform modernization and SRE practices into business outcomes—driving releases from bi-weekly to 100+ monthly, improving uptime to 99.998%, and reducing incident MTTR by 90%. Chad blends product-minded engineering with strong security and compliance chops (SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, DevSecOps), while also enabling new revenue through data warehouses and partner APIs. He grows teams deliberately—scaling infrastructure orgs from solo contributors to 15+ engineers—and coaches leaders to adopt AI-augmented workflows for planning, debugging, and automation. Based in Bradenton, FL, he pairs a relentless curiosity for how things work with a bias for iterative delivery, valuing speed and user experience over perfection.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at YukonBasics Computer Science, Basics Computer Science at Yukon High SchoolUdemy
English
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Github Skills (23)
javascript8
typescript7
d3js6
angular5
svg5
donut5
angular-library5
phonegap4
charts3
android3
cordova3
cross-platform2
typechecker2
charting2
declarative2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
cvmake/makermap
Sep 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:38 commits, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
phonegap/phonegap-plugin-barcodescanner
May 2018 - May 2018
cross-platform BarcodeScanner for Cordova / PhoneGap
Contributions:1 comment in 1 day
cordovaandroidcross-platformbarcodescannerphonegap
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