# Oswald Chisala > Software Engineer at Further Location: Kent, Ohio, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/oswald I'm Ozzy, a software engineer at Canary Technologies (YC S18) working for the triage pod. I do SSO, auth, engineering investigations, and generally try to be a helpful teammate. My main tools are Vue.js, Django (a python framework), Datadog, and AWS for all the things. My favorite fields in math are complex analysis and partial differential equations. Outside of work, I love to play chess, keep up with all the latest stuff in space tech, and build stuff. My go-to frameworks right now are NuxtJS, NextJS, and Django. In my opinion, my biggest strength is my never-ending excitement to learn new things. Feel free to say hi ✨ ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ FURTHER Jan 2026 – Present | United States Further Technology LLC is an AI platform serving senior living and behavioral health operators, helping teams more effectively engage and convert prospective residents. As an Integrations Support Engineer, I design and implement client integrations across a range of partner systems (CRM, telephony, marketing automation, etc.), supporting deployments from growth-stage operators to enterprise organizations. I also build internal tooling and automation to streamline onboarding, reduce implementation time, and improve reliability across our integration pipeline. ### Software Engineer @ Canary Technologies Jan 2023 – Jan 2026 | New York, NY Canary Technologies (YC '18) is a leading hotel software startup, serving over 20,000 customers in 80+ countries. As a software engineer in the triage pod, I specialize in diagnosing and resolving complex bugs across our tech stack. I also support our Customer Success team by improving internal tools and processes, and collaborate with organizations to implement seamless SSO integrations with Canary. I'm very anti-bug lol. Lets leave software better than we found it. ### Software Engineer @ Athens Metropolitan Housing Authority Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Athens, Ohio, United States The Athens MHA is a local government authority tasked with providing affordable housing for low income families across the Athens County area. I am a software engineer (on contract) redoing the Athens MHA's website with React + typescript. The site's focus is on outreach, and will thus be optimized for SEO, web accessibility, responsiveness, and easy management through the Contentful CMS. Core technologies used are NextJS, Contentful, Go, AWS S3, and MongoDB. ### Web Developer @ Eclipse Academy Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Athens, Ohio, United States I worked at the Eclipse Academy as a web developer on contract. I wrote and deployed an internal Dashboard using NextJS, Typescript, Go, Excelize, and the Google Calendar API. The dashboard reduced the time required to create session logs down from 2+ weeks to 3 seconds. ### React Developer @ Athens Central Hotel Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Athens, Ohio, United States I am a contract developer at the Athens Central Hotel using React, Typescript, NextJS, NodeJS, and Golang to build our new production website from the ground up. I am also coding up an internal price analysis tool. I am also leading the website rewrite to improve our SEO and grow our web bookings. Whenever appropriate, I engage with customers as required (taking bookings, handling check-in, check-out, etc) as a front desk customer service rep. The hotel already has a remote team of developers that maintain our hotel management system, and it is my job to make sure our internal systems are consistent with their tools. I ensure that their APIs work with our website (eg. for hydrating room prices, etc). In my role, I am primarily building for the web. ### Full Stack Developer @ JobParty Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Remote I am a technical co-founder at JobParty.co. JobParty is a live-streaming platform where anyone can live-stream their skills, get rated, matched, and pushed straight to interviews. As a full stack engineer at the startup, I am building both the frontend and backend of the site. My primary tools are nextJS, nodeJS, typescript, golang, and MongoDB. We're building fast and hope to have an MVP ready by the end of September 2022. In the meantime, you're welcome to join our waitlist over on https://www.JobParty.co so I can let you know when the beta drops 😊🏆 ### React Developer @ Raba, The Game Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Athens, Ohio, United States Raba is an online, open-source multiplayer board-game based on the traditional African game, Morabaraba (12 Men Morris) that I used to play as a kid. I am coding the frontend with love using React-Typescript, and writing the backend with node-express-typescript. I am using Redis for server-side caching and web-sockets for realtime communication. The game is still under development but you can check it out on GitHub at ozzyfromspace/raba-web. If you want to try it, clone the main branch, yarn to build, and yarn dev to run the dev version in the browser on port 3000 by default. If you use Docker with VSCode Remote Containers, the .devcontainer config is already set up for you. I'll update this description as I make progress. ### Co-Founder @ Gifty Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Remote Led the Figma design of the UI. Built the OAuth2 auth system and relevant APIs in node and integrated it into our React frontend. Setup our database strategy. Did the app testing. ### Full-stack Developer @ Stellar Vision API Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Remote Wrote a 3D simulation of debris orbiting Earth using Three-JS. Wrote an API to query and mutate mock data from a computer vision algorithm that one of my teammates wrote. ### Customer Service Representative @ Meijer Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Lansing, Michigan Area Meijer's a great company to work for. The team members I worked with kept us moving forward, and I grew substantially throughout my time there. I wish the store nothing but the best. ### Co-Founder @ Roze Smart Sensor Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Michigan, United States Developed a traffic-flow IR-blaster sensor using a custom circuit based on an Arduino micro-controller. Wrote code to transmit data via radio and implemented a wireless RF-LAN for multiple sensors to stay in sync. ## Education ### Electrical and Electronics Engineering Michigan State University Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/chisalao - GitHub: https://github.com/ozzyfromspace --- Source: https://flows.cv/oswald JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/oswald/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-29