# Chad Franzen

> Staff Software Engineer at Headway

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/chadfranzen

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Headway
Jan 2024 – Present | New York, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ Headway
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | New York, United States

### Software Engineer - Google Workspace @ Google
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | New York, New York, United States
- Front-end engineer building video calling integrations for Docs, Sheets, and Slides, used by 1M+ customers daily
- Engaged with cross-functional partners to develop a reusable Iframe-based picture-in-picture video API.
- Co-lead for Docs-wide bug triage, diagnosing and prioritizing new bug reports daily.

### Software Engineer - Visual Analytics @ Google
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | New York, New York, United States
- Designed and built novel, performant web visualizations for Google's planet-scale networking and database systems.
- Tech lead for Key Visualizer, which enabled critical customers (Snap, Spotify, et al.) to diagnose performance bottlenecks in GCP databases like Bigtable.
- Developed new algorithms and implemented advanced Angular optimizations to achieve 100x performance increases on large datasets.

### Teaching Assistant - CS498: The Art of Web Programming @ University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Urbana-Champaign Area
- TA for 400-level undergraduate course that taught modern full-stack web development (Angular, Node.js, MongoDB) as well as design and UX principles.
- Developed exam questions, created VMs and starter code for programming projects, and assisted students with technical questions.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Google
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | New York, New York, United States
- Designed and implemented a dashboard for debugging and analyzing NLP-based Knowledge Graph answers in search results.
- Surfaced data from across Google’s search stack to produce actionable insights about search quality.

### Web Engineering Intern @ Sprout Social, Inc.
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Primary engineer for front-end development of the Message Approval feature, a major new revenue driver.
- Refactored legacy code to use modern React components and ES6 syntax.


## Education
### Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2013 – Jan 2017

### High School
Harry D Jacobs High School
Jan 2009 – Jan 2013


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/chad-franzen-443498a4

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Last updated: 2026-03-22