Chad Gauthier

About Chad Gauthier

12+ years of making things work across the entire product lifecycle — frontend, systems, DevOps, DX, whatever needs doing. Currently building prediction markets at a company I can\'t name and contributing to the Ladybird browser in my spare time.Previously: founding frontend engineer at a startup (0→1, secured first paying customers with a 6-person team). Before that. real estate crowdfunding, enterprise at scale. I\'ve shipped in React, Angular, vanilla JS, and probably some things I\'ve repressed.I gravitate toward entrepreneurial environments where I can have outsized impact. I think in systems, I mentor by doing, and I make problems disappear - sometimes before anyone notices they existed.Side quests include Android kernel mods, Zelda 64 decompilation, AI tooling, and 55 public GitHub repos of varying completion status.Always open to Staff/Lead conversations if you\'re building something interesting. Remote Ideally or Austin, TX.

Experience

1. Software Engineer

   Confidential Company

   Nov 2025 — Present · Austin, TX, US

   Frontend engineer on the prediction markets team at a high-volume crypto entertainment platform. Five months in, already driving outsized impact:Slashed page load times by 40%+, with the biggest gains in high-growth emerging markets - contributing to a notable lift in trading volume and platform engagementBuilt real-time analytics dashboards giving product and engineering visibility into user behavior, conversion funnels, and feature adoptionIntroduced AI-assisted development tooling into the frontend codebase, accelerating iteration speed across the teamFocused on the high-leverage stuff: performance, developer experience, instrumentation - the work that makes everyone else ship fasterReact, TypeScript, FullStory, GraphQL.

Education

• Gannon University

  Information Systems and Theatre/Communications

  2008 — 2013