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Chad Groft
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Location: San Francisco, California, United StatesApprox. Years of Experience: 22
Chad Groft's Current Workplace
Benchling
Company Size
301-1000
Amount Raised
$411.9M
Biotechnology is rewriting life as we know it, from the medicines we take, to the crops we grow, the materials we wear, and the household goods that we rely on every day. But moving at the new speed of science requires better technology. Benchling’s mission is to unlock the power of biotechnology. The world’s most innovative biotech companies use Benchling’s R&D Cloud to power the development of breakthrough products and accelerate time to milestone and market. Come help us bring modern software to modern science. https://www.benchling.com/careers/
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Notable Investors
Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator, Lux Capital, Tiger Global Management, Menlo Ventures
Software
Database
Life Science
Biotechnology
Productivity Tools
Experience
Software Engineer
Benchling · Full-time
Mar 2022 - Present
2 yrs 9 mos
Master Software Engineer
Capital One · Full-time
Jun 2019 - Feb 2022
2 yrs 9 mos
• 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
Apr 2018 - Feb 2019
11 mos
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
Jun 2016 - Feb 2018
1 yr 9 mos
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
Mar 2015 - Jan 2016
11 mos
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
Nov 2012 - Dec 2014
2 yrs 2 mos
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
May 2010 - Nov 2012
2 yrs 7 mos
• 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
Sep 2007 - Aug 2009
2 yrs
• Lectured for Linear Algebra, Calculus, and Concepts in Abstract Mathematics. • Investigated the computational complexity of topological embedding problems.
Education
  • 2002 - 2007
    Stanford UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Mathematics
  • 1998 - 2002
    University of MarylandBachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics, Computer Science, and Physics