# Chase McDermott

> Staff Software Engineer

Location: Houston, Texas, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/chasemcdermott

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Circle
Jan 2024 – Present | Houston, Texas, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ Circle
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024

### Software Engineer II @ Circle
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Houston, Texas, United States

### Software Engineer @ Circle
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022

### Software Engineer II @ RetailMeNot
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Austin, Texas, United States

### Software Engineer I @ RetailMeNot
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Austin, Texas

### Lead Full-Stack Developer @ Texas A&M University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Bryan/College Station, Texas Area
Lead team of 5 developing Ruby on Rails web applications using the Agile development process for use by the entire College of Engineering including over 2000 faculty and 18,000 students.

Correspond closely with various teams in the College of Engineering Accounting offices to interpret business requirements and translate them into software specifications for the team.

Significant exposure to various AWS tools such as EC2, Elastic Beanstalk, Lambda, S3, and RDS.

Designed and implemented an application to manage faculty requests for hiring new employees using Ruby on Rails, MySQL, Bootstrap, and jQuery, with a RESTful API.

Headed design for a serverless API written in Node.JS on AWS Lambda with a MySQL database for an asset tracking web application, saving costs by up to 200% compared to the groups' other applications running on Elastic Beanstalk.

### Peer Teaching Assisstant @ Texas A&M University
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | College Station, TX
Peer Teacher for Intro to Engineering (ENGR 111 & 112) at TAMU. Assisted the Professor and Graduate Assistant with various class grading and reviewing. Collaborated with other Peer Teachers to assist students with class activities as needed. Led two weekly review sessions for students giving assistance in their Physics and Calculus classes.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Audible, Inc.
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Newark, New Jersey

### Software Engineer Intern @ JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Houston, Texas Area
Summer Technology Analyst Program


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science
Texas A&M University
Jan 2015 – Jan 2019


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/chase-mcdermott
- GitHub: https://github.com/chase1745

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Last updated: 2026-03-29