Summary
Chase Haddleton is a software engineer based in San Francisco with a decade-plus of experience building high-performance systems across finance and infrastructure. Currently at Chalk after multi-year roles at Citadel and Citadel Securities, he’s worked on analytics, modeling, and data platform projects that require low-latency, reliable engineering. Proficient in Java, C++, JavaScript and React, he pairs front-end fluency with back-end experience in Jetty, Node.js, Redis, Kafka, MongoDB, GCP and Docker. Earlier roles at Bloomberg and Yahoo involved real-time trading compliance and a chaos engineering framework, demonstrating a strong focus on resiliency and observability. A Waterloo Computer Science co-op alum and former FIRST Robotics captain, he brings leadership, curiosity and a track record of mentoring and shipping complex systems. Outside work he’s an avid photographer, kayaker and community moderator, signaling a balance of technical rigor and real-world creativity.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Honours Bachelor of Computer Science Co-op Computer Science, Honours Bachelor of Computer Science Co-op Computer Science at University of Waterloo