Todd Chaffee
Engineering Team Lead at Forward Financing
Bradenton, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTodd Chaffee is an experienced engineering team lead and hands-on full‑stack engineer with over two decades of work across startups and large enterprises in real estate, education, retail, gaming, and telecom. He specializes in JavaScript, HTML, and CSS while also delivering backend systems with Node.js, Express, Sequelize/Postgres and MongoDB, consistently prioritizing measurable business value. At companies like TurboTenant and Forward Financing he’s driven technical documentation, improved test reliability, and mentored engineers to accelerate onboarding and quality. An entrepreneurial builder, he founded two education- and social-focused startups and led community initiatives as chairman of major Facebook developer meetups that regularly drew 150–200+ attendees. Frequently ranked in the top percentiles on StackOverflow, he combines public speaking and volunteer teaching with pragmatic engineering leadership from his base in Bradenton, Florida.
11 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Full Stack Web Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering at Free Code CampFranklin High SchoolAssociate of Science - AS, Computer Science, 3.98 GPA, Associate of Science - AS, Computer Science, 3.98 GPA at Middlesex County College
English, Italian, Portuguese
Github Skills (190)
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android10
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
tchaffee/testable-projects-fcc
Jun 2017 - Oct 2018
testable projects for freecodecamp.com curriculum expansion
Contributions:10 PRs, 171 pushes, 143 branches in 1 year 4 months
testablecurriculumexpansionfreecodecamp
tchaffee/freeCodeCamp
Oct 2017 - Apr 2019
The https://freeCodeCamp.com open source codebase and curriculum. Learn to code and help nonprofits.
Contributions:64 PRs, 90 pushes, 103 branches in 1 year 5 months
reactcurriculumjavascriptnonprofitscodebase
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