Adrian Chadd

Career Objectives

Seeking challenging roles designing, implementing and troubleshooting new hardware platforms, networked services; IoT devices; internet infrastructure and wireless technologies.

Technical Skills

Adrian Chadd has over 20 years experience in various networking, systems and software related areas. He has worked in a variety of environments including technology startups, telecommunications carriers, corporate, consulting, academic and government organisations.

His experience with software, hardware, electronics, networking from all angles - specification, design, implementation, maintenance and troubleshooting - make him an ideal candidate as part of a technical group with a mandate to deliver secure, efficient, flexible solutions in a realistic timeframe.

His diverse skill-sets and interests give him novel insights into problem solving, debugging and troubleshooting across all disciplines.

Presentations

Employment History

Eva Automation, Inc. (Redwood City, CA) - November 2015 - August 2016

Bowers & Wilkins (Redwood City, CA) - August 2016 -

Eva Automation acquired Bowers & Wilkins early in 2016.

Wifi Team Lead, Architect

Moved into team lead in early 2017 and networking architecture lead in mid 2017.

Norse Corp, Inc. (San Mateo, CA) - May 2014 - November 2015

Senior Engineer

Netflix, Inc. (Los Gatos, CA) - July 2013 - April 2014

Senior Software Engineer

Qualcomm Atheros, Inc. (San Jose) - December 2011- July 2013

Senior Software Engineer

Owner/Operator

Xenion Pty Ltd (Perth) - June 2007 - Jan 2016

Software
Hardware
Wireless

Electronic and Electrical Engineering department; University of Western Australia - November 2007 - September 2008

Systems/Network Administrator

Denver Technology (Perth) - October 2006 - June 2007

Network Engineer

The University of Western Australia (Perth) - October 2003 - October 2006

Systems/Network Administrator

West Australia Networks (Perth) May 2003 - October 2003

Technical Administrator

Coretel (Perth) January 2003 - May 2003

Network Engineer

IP Exchange (Sydney) July 2002 - December 2002

Systems Architect

InterXion (Amsterdam) March 2000 - September 2001

Network Architect/Systems Programmer

Versatel Telecom (Amsterdam) April 1999 - March 2000

Network/Web Cache Architect

Speedport (Amsterdam) December 1998 - April 1999

Network/Web Cache Architect

iiNet Technologies (Perth) October - December 1998

Customer Support

Computronics (Perth) June-October 1998

Software Developer

Ourworld Global Network (Sydney) 1997-1998

Network/Systems Administrator

Open Source Software Projects

Squid Proxy Cache

http://www.squid-cache.org/

Besides general performance, stability and code reorganisation improvements, the following is a non-exhaustive list of project milestones and features completed for the Squid project.

Lusca Proxy Cache

This is a non-exhaustive list of open source work either committed back or will be committed back to the public Lusca repository.

FreeBSD

http://www.freebsd.org/

Xen (general)

http://www.xensource.com/

IRCd-hybrid

http://www.ircd-hybrid.org/

Zebra

http://www.quagga.net

I worked on a local Zebra codebase at InterXion as part of their plans to roll out a Europe-wide virtual internet exchange.

Other

This is a non-exhaustive list. Please look at https://github.com/erikarn for projects.

Various projects available at http://github.com/erikarn/ .

Hobbies

Embedded hardware development, robotics, musician.

References

Available on request.