Ted Dowd
Consultant at Home Starter
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTed Dowd is a consultant and former CTO with 10 years of experience building data-driven technology and analytics platforms for real estate and mortgage businesses. He has led engineering and analytics teams to develop large-scale data ingestion, pricing and acquisition models, and internal tools that automated paper-based workflows into cloud-native systems. At Home Partners and Guaranteed Rate he combined hands-on scripting (Python, SQL, Ruby) with strategic responsibilities spanning IT security, compliance, and investor presentations. More recently he co-founded Home Starter to scale homeownership initiatives and now advises and consults for startups and investors while serving as an angel investor. Based in Chicago, he is also a licensed Illinois home inspector and FAA Part 107 drone pilot, bringing practical field perspective to property- and data-centric products. Colleagues describe him as a builder who bridges analytics, product and operations to turn messy real-estate data into actionable business outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) IT Management Economics, Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) IT Management Economics at University of Notre Dame - Mendoza College of BusinessHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Newark Academy
Github Skills (11)
geocoder9
craigslist9
reverse-geocoding9
geocoding8
vba7
api7
excel6
wrapper6
zillow5
scraper2
python1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
tdowd/excel-geocoder
Jul 2018 - Apr 2020
A VBA application for geocoding and reverse geocoding in Excel. Supports both Google's free and enterprise for business geocoder (Maps API for Work).
Contributions:6 commits, 5 PRs, 20 pushes in 1 year 9 months
apigeocodingreverse-geocodinggeocodervba
tdowd/scrapezillow
Oct 2015 - Aug 2017
Contributions:9 PRs, 8 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 10 months
scraperzillowzillow-scraper
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