Chase Rutherford-jenkins
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Slack
Providence, Rhode Island, United States
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Top SchoolChase Rutherford-Jenkins is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of production experience building core infrastructure and developer tooling, currently focused on language and runtime improvements at Slack. He has driven runtime upgrades and shared component design for HHVM at scale and previously shaped Spotify’s Backstage plugin bundle to improve developer experience across a large engineering organization. Chase blends deep backend systems expertise with a product-minded approach, having progressed from visualization and geospatial engineering at Schlumberger to infrastructure leadership roles at Slack and Spotify. Based in Providence, RI, he pairs hands-on implementation skill with architecture-level thinking, mentoring teams through cross-cutting changes. Notably, his career shows repeated returns to Slack in increasingly senior platform roles, reflecting strong domain ownership and long-term impact on core systems. He holds a BA and MS in Computer Science from Rice University.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science at Rice University
Github Skills (51)
backstage10
infrastructure10
dx10
service-catalog10
microservices10
docker-compose8
validation8
json8
validators8
json-schema7
docker-image7
golang7
pluggable7
docker7
rest-api5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
chaseajen/registrator
Dec 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 8 days
service-registrybridgedockeradapterspluggable
chaseajen/tutum-registrator
Dec 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 22 days
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