Chase D. in

Chase D.

Login to view DISC.
Staff Software Engineer at Thistle
📍 Austin, Texas, United States

Chase is a mission-driven Staff Software Engineer at Thistle with over 12 years of experience. An expert in Ruby on Rails, he successfully led an org-wide migration to a new Next. js/GraphQL stack at Goodreads, improving latency by 25%. He holds a BA with Honors from Swarthmore College.

Outside of his engineering career, Chase served as an Agriculture Specialist in the Peace Corps. In this role, he led a team to create an agricultural curriculum, trained 170 farmers, and published 25 training brochures. He values caring for ones mind and spirit, not just the body.

Unique fact: He designed, wrote, illustrated, and published agricultural training brochures in both Portuguese and English for the Peace Corps.

Read the full overview →
Experience
14 Years
Current Role
Staff Software Engineer
Job Level
Middle
Location
Austin, Texas, United States
Personality Overview

How Chase shows up

Communication Style
Decision Approach
Work Preference

Behavioral traits and communication patterns that shape how this person evaluates opportunities, builds trust, and makes decisions in professional settings.

Login to view personality overview.
Priorities

Topics Chase cares about

Scalable Web Architecture
Architected and led a migration to a new tech stack serving over 500 million hits per month while significantly reducing latency.
Nurturing Engineering Teams
Describes his role as serving the team so they can serve the mission and has over 12 years of experience nurturing teams.
+5 more topics Login to view topics
Career

Work history

11-2023
Staff Software Engineer
Thistle
2-2012 - 1-2023
Senior Software Engineer
Goodreads.com
2-2011 - 11-2011
Ruby on Rails Developer
Freelance
Agriculture Specialist
Peace Corps
11-2007 - 6-2008
Ruby on Rails Developer
Recyclebank
In the press

Media appearances

No media yetWe could not find public media appearances for this person.
Education
2003 - 2007
BA with Honors
Swarthmore College
Social presence
in
Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

DISC behavioral profile

Dominance, influence, steadiness, and calculativeness scores with guidance on how this person prefers to communicate and decide.

Login to view DISC.

Other Thistle Employees

Explore more public profiles from related professionals.

LH
Laura Hart
Event Manager
Thistle

More profiles

Discover additional public profiles from our index.

Jonathan Satterfield
Jonathan Satterfield
Vice President Pine Chemicals, Supply Chain
Kraton Corporation
 Thomas Nelson, CFA CAIA
Thomas Nelson, CFA CAIA
SVP, Portfolio Manager, Head of Market Strategy
Franklin Templeton
 Alejandra Lazcano
Alejandra Lazcano
Director of Marketing and Community Outreach
Hospice of the Chesapeake
 Dustin Gutkowski
Dustin Gutkowski
Owner
Results Roofing
Unlock the full playbookSee exactly how to sell to Chase. Free, 10 seconds.