Summary
Tad Scritchfield is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and modernizing full-stack systems, currently powering SmartRent platforms used across nearly a million apartments. He blends backend expertise in Elixir, Postgres, and Rust with front-end skills in React and TypeScript to deliver high-throughput services handling millions of daily requests and dramatically faster developer builds. Tad has a track record of practical cost and performance wins—from removing ~1 billion rows of data to cutting support wait times by over 50% and saving $300k annually—while mentoring teammates and improving security posture. He’s comfortable across the stack and infrastructure, having implemented CI/CD to Kubernetes, shipped microservices in hours, and led UX-driven internal tool redesigns. A musician by background with a second bachelor’s degree in Music, he brings creative problem solving and an eye for design to engineering challenges. Based in Nashville, he pairs curiosity with measurable impact, often sharing knowledge through internal talks and frontline mentorship.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.7, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.7 at Thomas Edison State College