Chad Kosie
Principal Software Engineer at Slide
Fairfield, Connecticut, United States
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Top SchoolChad Kosie is a Principal Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building resilient backup and cloud-native platforms, now leading architecture and delivery at Slide. He progressed from intern to staff roles at Datto, where he helped design an image-based upgrade for 70,000+ BDR appliances, launched direct-to-cloud PC backups, and migrated services from VMs to Kubernetes. Chad’s expertise spans systems architecture, public cloud deployments, and operationalizing secure, high-throughput backup services for MSPs and Azure VMs. He thrives in product-driven teams, frequently wearing multiple hats—from hands-on coding and infrastructure deployment to mentoring engineers and coordinating cross-functional stakeholders. Known for pragmatic engineering trade-offs, he focuses on delivering measurable reliability and scalability rather than theoretical perfection. Based in Fairfield, CT, he pairs deep BCDR domain knowledge with a track record of shipping production systems at scale.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at University of Manitoba
English
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Github Skills (37)
jquery-countdown10
responsive-images9
doctrine9
torrent9
bittorrent9
srcset8
php8
firmware8
laravel8
image-processing8
openapi-codegen7
python7
rest-api7
riot-games-api6
openapi6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
sonnyt/downCount
Nov 2015 - Nov 2024
jQuery countdown plugin
Contributions:2 PRs in 9 years 2 months
jquery-countdown
Supericy/Chat-App
Sep 2016 - Nov 2024
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 27 pushes in 8 years 4 months
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