Chad Williamson
Sr. Software Engineer at Udacity
Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChad Williamson is a seasoned Sr. Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building and operating production-grade infrastructure, specializing in SRE and DevOps across both on-prem and cloud-native Kubernetes environments. He pairs a rigorous MS in mathematics and aerospace engineering research background with hands-on skills in Python, Go, embedded C++, and tooling for GitOps, observability, and CI/CD. His career spans startups to large enterprises—including MasterCard, Google, and TransUnion/iovation—where he designed custom Kubernetes controllers, led migrations to AWS, and ran large on-call operational programs. Chad's research work in hypersonics introduced advanced image-processing and low-latency embedded triggering systems, a cross-domain strength he brings to solving complex systems problems. Based in Colorado, he’s driven by a fascination for how complicated systems work and by turning that curiosity into reliable, auditable infrastructure.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
University of Texas at San AntonioMaster of Science - MS, Mathematics, Master of Science - MS, Mathematics at Portland State UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics at Truman State University
English, German
Github Skills (53)
busybox10
rewrite10
linux10
cross-platform10
duplicates10
coreutils10
command-line-tool10
rust10
nim-language10
gnu10
gnu-coreutils10
database8
static-site8
prometheus-exporter8
exporter8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
dahc/rc
Oct 2015 - Oct 2024
Contributions:11 pushes, 3 branches in 9 years 1 month
dahc/findutils
Dec 2020 - Apr 2024
Rust implementation of findutils
Contributions:23 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years 3 months
crosswordfindutilsrusthyphenationhash-functions
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