Chad Whitacre
Head Of Open Source at Sentry (sentry.io)
Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolChad Whitacre is Head of Open Source at Sentry with 22 years of experience driving developer-facing infrastructure, community initiatives, and licensing efforts across major open source projects. He began contributing in 2001 during the Python web boom (authoring Aspen) and later founded the crowdfunded platform Gratipay, giving him rare firsthand experience balancing volunteer OSS work with sustainable funding models. At Sentry he leads initiatives like the Open Source Pledge and Fair Source while also contributing to tooling, docs, CI/CD and self-hosted deployments across repositories such as sentry, self-hosted, and readthedocs. His contributions span QA, devops, backend and technical writing—ranging from OAuth test automation to Python 3 migrations and improving onboarding docs—showing a blend of hands-on engineering and community stewardship. Based in Pennsylvania, he combines entrepreneurial instincts with pragmatic engineering to make open source projects more sustainable and easier to use.
22 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Bachelor of Arts - BA at Wheaton College
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Programming languages (29)
Github contributions (5)
getsentry/self-hosted
Aug 2020 - Jan 2023
Sentry, feature-complete and packaged up for low-volume deployments and proofs-of-concept
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:375 reviews, 93 commits, 243 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Chad primarily focused on improving the self-hosted Sentry installation process. They implemented features like reading and setting environment variables, integrating with MaxMind for geolocation, and bumping the RAM requirement. Furthermore, the user refactored the relay configuration and improved the logging structure with `::group::`. These changes centered around enhancing the setup, configuration, and operational aspects of the Sentry instance.
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liberapay/liberapay.com
Dec 2011 - Sep 2015
Source code of the recurrent donations platform Liberapay
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5013 commits, 33 comments in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Chad's commits focused on enhancing the user interface and making it responsive, specifically targeting the design and implementation of charts and leaderboards. This involved modifying CSS styles, including font and button styling, and adjusting the layout and responsiveness of various components. Furthermore, the user made changes to the codebase that required code reformatting to align with project conventions.
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