# Tad Schukar

> Senior Software Engineer

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/tadschukar

I am a software engineer living in San Fransisco

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Flexport
Jan 2019 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area
As Senior;
- Served as subject matter expert and tech lead for Schedules team
- Architected robust solutions and frameworks for longevity and maintainability
- Worked cross-team to develop solutions involving multiple stakeholders
- Closely involved in team planning to set strategic, and realistic, goals
- Provided teach leadership for team and created/enforced best practices
- Mentored engineers across org, empowering growth and quick ramping
- Lead code contributor on team and consistently top performing org wide
- Continually addressed tech-debt and drove forward long-tail tech migrations
- Proactively built tooling to improve ease of development and engineering velocity

As SWEII:
- Full stack engineer on Squad Tools and Schedules teams
- Built and maintained SOA backend with Spring Boot and Ruby on Rails frameworks
- Created frontend features in Flexport App using React and GraphQL
- Designed engineering solutions and drove through engineering review to user delivery
- Worked closely with product team to address user needs with features and UAT

### Software Engineer @ Extole
Jan 2015 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco
- Planned sprints for myself and junior team members in Moldova and San Francisco offices
- Owned and developed js/css/html assets to seamlessly match client user flows and site styles
- Designed core frontend behavior; negotiated implementation with product and engineering
- Expanded/optimized core.js custom Extole framework rendered as 3rd party on client sites

### Forklift Operator @ Newport-St. Paul Cold Storage Co
Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 | Newport, MN


## Education
### Associate’s Degree in Computer Science
Saint Paul College-A Community and Technical College
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015

### Web Development
App Academy
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/tad-schukar
- Website: http://shoecar.github.io/

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Last updated: 2026-03-23