Tad Hunt
CEO Co-Founder at Mentum
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTad Hunt is a serial founder, product-focused CEO, and engineering leader with 12 years of senior experience driving products from prototype to enterprise sales and acquisition. He co-founded Exablox (acquired) and now leads Arrayscape Gaming and MC Playdates, blending technical productization skills with youth-focused educational gaming and managed services. At Google he led File Storage product strategy and Elastifile integration, and his hands-on contributions to open-source projects like Pachyderm show deep familiarity with build pipelines, DevOps, and backend systems. Tad has a rare cross-domain resume spanning telecom CPE, enterprise storage, cloud file services, security, AI, and crypto, and he’s an active angel investor and advisor across enterprise and fintech startups. Based in Boulder, he pairs system-level architecture and coding expertise with boardroom experience scaling teams and fundraising. A less obvious strength: he’s comfortable switching hats—from low-level bootloader and kernel work early in his career to leading product strategy and residency programs for AI startups.
12 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Rochester Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (14)
container10
docker10
go10
vagrant10
dockers10
kubernetes-pods9
bash9
kubernetes9
distributed-systems8
go-modules8
testing7
google-app-engine6
resource-management6
data-analysis6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
pachyderm/pachyderm
Dec 2015 - Feb 2016
Data-Centric Pipelines and Data Versioning
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Backend Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Backend EngineerContributions:12 commits, 7 PRs, 2 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Tad primarily focused on improving the development environment and build process for the Pachyderm project. Their work involved refactoring the `init.sh` script to enhance Vagrant setup, ensuring correct Go environment configuration, and enabling Docker usage for the Vagrant user. They also addressed linting errors during the testing phase, correcting a code issue within the PFS package. This suggests the user had a strong understanding of the build pipeline and the core backend codebase.
containersanalyticsdata-analysispachydermpipeline
tadhunt/brick-hacks-python-app-engine-ml-demo
Feb 2019 - May 2023
Demo App Engine Python application which shows how to use the Sentiment Analysis API
Contributions:6 PRs, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
nlpapidemo-apppythonapp-engine
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