# Chad Groft > Software Engineer (data pipelines, web design, etc.) Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/chadgroft Senior Software Engineer with experience in a wide range of technologies and industries and strong skills in mathematical modeling and technical instruction. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Benchling Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States ### Master Software Engineer @ Capital One Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | McLean, Virginia, United States • Co-built a tool to estimate company-wide cost of migrating to Kubernetes from AWS deployments. • Built a Capital One-specific service mesh proof-of-concept from existing products (Istio and Envoy). • Constructed a pipeline to transfer network flow logs from S3 to an internal data streaming platform, which helped our team satisfy security requirements. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Flexport Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area Trucking * Spearheaded project to put our team’s major functions under integration test. Clarified tests for other trucking engineers and adapted internal and external tools for use by other teams. * Rebranded the team’s entire user-facing website. Worked with internal design team to add theming to shared components and increased their use site-wide. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Twitch Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area Science Engineering • Wrote data recovery tool incorporating Spark and existing data pipeline tools, saving 1–2 engineer- days per major pipeline incident and making per-event-type backfills possible. • Oversaw port of data ingest endpoint to new load balancer with negligible loss of data. ### Principal Software Engineer @ AppDynamics Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco, CA Server and Infrastructure Monitoring: • Fixed bugs in the machine monitoring agent, web-based central controller, and build system. • Rewrote code coverage build tool with off-the-shelf components, saving about 1500 lines of configuration and Groovy code and about 50 engineer-days. ### Software Engineer @ Google Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | Mountain View, CA Index Selection: • Maintained algorithms which select the contents of the web search index, affecting over 1 billion monthly users and 50,000 queries per second worldwide. • Maintained daily coverage pipeline, which aggregates worldwide serving and click data. • Added status returns to our code, saving about one engineer-day per month on bug diagnosis. • Constructed a page signal snapshot pipeline, increasing our confidence in selection differences. • Taught multiple sessions of C++ @ Google 101, which introduced about 20 software engineers per day-long session to internal C++ tools. Updated class materials when new tools were approved. ### Senior Software Engineer @ QinetiQ North America Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 | McLean, VA • Team prototyped software which detected problems in aircraft trajectories, determined possible solutions, and presented them to air traffic controllers. • Maintained and developed probe for potential airspace violations and aircraft collisions. ### Postdoctoral Fellow @ University of Toronto Jan 2007 – Jan 2009 • Lectured for Linear Algebra, Calculus, and Concepts in Abstract Mathematics. • Investigated the computational complexity of topological embedding problems. ## Education ### Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Mathematics Stanford University ### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Mathematics, Computer Science, and Physics University of Maryland ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/chad-groft --- Source: https://flows.cv/chadgroft JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/chadgroft/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-11