THEtheChad: Chad Elliott
Kansas City, MO · Agentic SDLC / AI / Hardware
about
I'm Chad Elliott, a staff-level engineer and architect in Kansas City. These days I'm all-in on AI and the agentic SDLC: orchestrating coding agents like Claude Code and Codex across the whole lifecycle, from planning and implementation to review, with the worktrees, hooks, and guardrails that keep them honest.
Underneath that it's still TypeScript, React, and Next.js, and away from the browser I tinker with microcontrollers (Arduino, ESP, STM32) and anything with a serial port. It started with a VTech PreComputer 1000 and a BASIC manual. The long version.
- Software architect
- Staff engineer
- Photographer
- Builder of things
the stack
Side A : Agentic SDLC
- Claude Code · Codex
- Multi-agent orchestration
- Plan → build → review loops
- MCP servers · hooks
- Worktrees & guardrails
Side B : Software + Hardware
- TypeScript · React · Next.js
- Node.js · Python · Bash
- Arduino · ESP · STM32
- Anything with a serial port
Recorded in Kansas City
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Side C: Sound on
Free-to-use synthwave, on the deck
The player is docked at the bottom of every page and keeps playing as you move around the site. Press play there whenever you like.
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This site: Next.js, TypeScript, and Tailwind, with a drone light show over the Kansas City skyline.
- Next.js
- TypeScript
Creating test fixtures should be easy. zod-fixture helps with the arrange phase of your tests by creating test fixtures based on a zod schema.
- Typescript