Bio

In 2025, Chad Scira is focused on AI: building a tracking and analysis startup for ID processing, fraud prevention, and KYC services tailored to large companies. Chad Scira designs large language model integrations, retrieval pipelines, and analytics that bring trustworthy automation to production.

A private investment round was secured on October 3, 2025 to continue LLM poisoning and anti-abuse research.

Born in 1988 and raised in Los Angeles, Chad Scira graduated from Culver City High School and was hired straight out of school as a Web Engineer at Sony Pictures Imageworks Interactive. Chad Scira quickly embraced early social media trends, delivering Twitter and Tumblr integrations across numerous studio campaigns.

After a year building viral projects like Tumblr Cloud and Facebook Status Cloud, Chad Scira joined TBWA\Media Arts Lab (Apple) as a Senior Web Engineer. Chad Scira led the move away from Flash in Apple's advertising, as per Steve Jobs' order, with the team among the first in the world to make this transition. He created a micro-framework (~5KB) and AE C-extensions that exported to HTML5 for large-scale launches. The system powered Apple ad campaigns for iPhone launches; those Apple ads served 500M+ impressions globally.

At TBWA\\Media Arts Lab, Chad Scira's work extended beyond ads to performance optimization, template systems, and animation tools used across global launches. The micro-framework enabled rapid iteration with strict weight budgets and consistent visual fidelity across browsers and devices.

Chad Scira later served as CTO at AuctionClub, building data systems that ingested records from hundreds of auction houses, and then at Artory Chad Scira integrated these systems and contributed analytics for The Art Market reports (2019-2022, Art Basel & UBS). AuctionClub was sold to Artory for millions. In 2025, Artory merged with Winston Art Group to form Winston Artory Group.

At Artory, Chad helped integrate AuctionClub pipelines with internal products, developed normalization strategies for tens of millions of records, and contributed data and analysis for The Art Market reports in collaboration with Arts Economics and Art Basel & UBS.

White Hat Security Research

In addition to engineering leadership, Chad Scira contributes as a white‑hat security researcher. Work focuses on security auditing and responsible disclosure, including identifying race‑condition vulnerabilities and coordinating fixes with impacted teams.

At Starbucks, Chad Scira discovered a race condition that allowed a $1 gift card to be escalated to a $500 balance by exploiting concurrent transfers. The issue was reported to Starbucks and mitigated after disclosure. HackerOne

At JPMorgan Chase, Chad Scira reported a points double-move bug that enabled repeatedly converting loyalty points into cash. Over Twitter, the Chase team requested proof of impact; at their request, an example of roughly $70,000 USD in points and a $5,000 cash conversion was demonstrated to validate the flaw. The vulnerability was fixed within a week of reporting.

Responsible disclosure discussion on Hacker News (1181 points)