Chad Wilken
Founding Engineer at CompanyCam
Lincoln, Nebraska, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChad Wilken is a founding engineer with 11 years of experience building SaaS products for the construction industry, currently driving core engineering at CompanyCam from Lincoln, Nebraska. He brings deep Ruby on Rails and AWS expertise alongside production experience with Postgres, MongoDB, Redis, and Elasticsearch, and a track record of taking projects from concept to delivery. Chad combines pragmatic simplicity with a systems mindset—evident in hands-on fixes like time-delta corrections to an open-source React Native AWS S3 uploader to harden client/server interactions. Comfortable across full-stack responsibilities, he balances rapid iteration for startups with durable engineering practices.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts and Sciences - AAS Computer Technology/Computer Systems Technology, Associate of Arts and Sciences - AAS Computer Technology/Computer Systems Technology at Southeast Community College
Github Skills (4)
aws-s310
react-native10
javascript10
mobile-development8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
benjreinhart/react-native-aws3
Jan 2017 - Jan 2017
Pure JavaScript React Native library for uploading to AWS S3
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 5 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Chad primarily focused on modifying the `S3Policy.js` file within a React Native library for AWS S3 uploads. Their commits involved refining the logic for calculating and applying time deltas related to expiration dates. These changes aimed to address potential time discrepancies between the device and the AWS S3 service. The revisions included correcting time offsets, adding time adjustment options, and simplifying related time calculations.
reactreact-native-libraryreact-nativejavascriptpure-javascript
CompanyCam/graphql-searchkick
Mar 2020 - Feb 2023
A searchkick connection adapter for the graphql gem
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 31 commits in 2 years 11 months
rubyadapterconnectiongemgraphql
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