Chad Walters
Distinguished Engineer at Splunk
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChad Walters is a Distinguished Engineer with over two decades of experience designing and re-architecting large-scale distributed systems across web search, advertising, storage, and analytics. He combines hands-on systems expertise—virtual memory, VMs/emulation, and performance optimization—with senior engineering leadership at companies from startups to Microsoft and Splunk, often driving radical improvements in latency, stability, and cost. At Microsoft he built division-wide data platforms, led adoption of open source patterns and projects like Bond, and sponsored hardware and architecture innovations such as Catapult FPGAs and SSD integration for Bing. He has a track record of scaling teams and platforms (leading organizations of dozens to ~100 engineers) while remaining a frequent code reviewer and contributor. Early in his career he shipped award-winning consumer utilities and emulator products, giving him a rare blend of deep systems-level knowledge and product-focused engineering. Based in Bellevue, WA, he’s known for translating research and infrastructure investments into measurable business impact and durable engineering practices.
10 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Symbolic Systems, BS, Symbolic Systems at Stanford University
Github Skills (11)
json10
dotnet10
bond10
scale10
cross-platform10
flatbuffers10
cross-language10
serialization10
microsoft9
csharp5
high-performance4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
chadwalters/bond
Mar 2016 - Oct 2024
Contributions:1 PR, 267 pushes, 73 branches in 8 years 7 months
dotnetcross-languageserializationscalegeneric
microsoft/bond
Jul 2015 - Nov 2024
Bond was a cross-platform framework for working with schematized data. The open-source project ended on March 31, 2025.
Contributions:130 PRs, 68 pushes, 3 branches in 9 years 5 months
dotnetcross-languageserializationscalegeneric
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