Chase Gilliam
Technical Lead at PepsiCo
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolChase Gilliam is a Technical Lead and software engineering manager with 13 years of experience building distributed systems and shipping resilient back-end services, currently solving global eCommerce problems at PepsiCo with Elixir. A former VP of Engineering and lead developer, he blends hands-on expertise in Elixir, Erlang, Ruby on Rails, and React with strong practices in TDD, CI/CD, and API design. He has a track record of modernizing legacy systems—wrapping old databases with GraphQL, modularizing HL7 billing code, and cutting commit-to-deploy cycles to minutes. Chase also trains and scales teams in new languages and tooling, having coached Rails engineers into Elixir proficiency and introduced Dialyzer and property testing across teams. Based in the New York City area, he pairs product-focused engineering leadership with a knack for pragmatic system design that eases complex integrations like EHR and billing.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Coursework towards Master's Degree, Computer Science, Coursework towards Master's Degree, Computer Science at Towson UniversityBachelor's Degree, International Business and Management, Bachelor's Degree, International Business and Management at Dickinson College
Spanish
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Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
Avhana/allscripts_api
Feb 2018 - Jun 2018
A simple Allscripts API client
Contributions:75 commits, 28 PRs, 58 pushes in 3 months
api-clientapijavascript
Ch4s3/hexpm
Jul 2022 - Jun 2026
API server and website for Hex
Contributions:44 pushes, 7 branches, 1 comment in 4 years
hexapiapi-server
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