A flexible software developer with 7 years of experience.
A proven record of quickly describing ideas through computer languages and toolchains.
Interested in opportunities to use software to improve lives.
Twitter: @therealchadius
Website: www.chadserrant.com
Languages: AVR-gcc, C, C++, C#, CSS, Flash, Java, Javascript, Perl, Python, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, SQL
Tools: bash, emacs, git, HAML, JSON, Perforce,
A flexible software developer with 7 years of experience.
A proven record of quickly describing ideas through computer languages and toolchains.
Interested in opportunities to use software to improve lives.
Twitter: @therealchadius
Website: www.chadserrant.com
Languages: AVR-gcc, C, C++, C#, CSS, Flash, Java, Javascript, Perl, Python, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, SQL
Tools: bash, emacs, git, HAML, JSON, Perforce, SASS, Subversion, Visual Studio, XCode, YAML
Operating Systems: Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
Software Engineer @ - Frontend developer for Compete.com, which has been measuring web site performance for the last 15 years.
- Python/Django/Javascript tech stack. From October 2015 to Present (3 months) Software Engineer @ - Worked on the Quality Management (QM) team and developed the backend used by clinical providers to track quality of care.
- Improved frontend QM website, which helps clinical providers track quality of care progress to satisfy government reimbursement requirements.
Skills used: Perl, Javascript, Linux, SQL, JSON, Perforce From April 2012 to June 2015 (3 years 3 months) Greater Boston AreaSoftware Engineer for Game of Thrones: Ascent @ - Prototyped engine to support user accounts and track quest progress for the interactive game, “Game of Thrones: Ascent”, on Facebook.
Skills used: Ruby on Rails, YAML From May 2012 to July 2012 (3 months) Software Engineer @ - Focused on Administrator controls to add advertisement videos to mobile games.
- Added Facebook login features to allow users easy access to collect rewards for watching advertisement videos.
Skills used: Ruby on Rails, CSS, SASS, HAML From October 2011 to November 2011 (2 months) Software Consultant @ - Worked on the backend to allow players to play games while downloading.
- Accelerated game conversion rates by enhancing tools to automate more and reduce manual work.
Skills used: Python, Linux From August 2011 to November 2011 (4 months) Escalation Engineer @ - Served as a resource to the Customer Support team and handled about five customer issues per week requiring a software engineer to analyze and debug the consumer data backup application.
- Detected and fixed bugs to improve the consumer data backup application on Windows and Mac OS X.
- Presented to multiple teams: unsolved escalation cases, potential common issues, and possible solutions.
Skills used: C++, Visual Studio, XCode, Mac OS X, Subversion From September 2009 to November 2011 (2 years 3 months) Greater Boston AreaEmbedded Software Engineer @ - Improved firmware for a wireless pedometer that transmits step counts and sends periodic updates to a server for comparison among peers.
- Performed quality control and additional testing to assure device quality.
Skills used: C, AVR-gcc, Linux, git From March 2007 to March 2009 (2 years 1 month) Greater Boston Area
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology From 2000 to 2005 Chad Serrant is skilled in: Linux, Python, Git, Java, C++, Unity3D, C#, Embedded Software, Desktop Computers, Visual C++, Ruby, SDL, Xcode, AVR, GCC
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