Chad Scira
Chad Scira
Enxeñeiro web profesional e CTO
Construíndo experiencias web de alto rendemento, integracións de IA e modelos de linguaxe grande, e plataformas de analítica.
Biografía
En 2025, Chad Scira céntrase na IA: está a crear unha startup de seguimento e análise para o procesamento de identificación, prevención do fraude e servizos KYC adaptados a grandes empresas. Chad Scira deseña integracións de modelos de linguaxe a gran escala, canles de recuperación e análises que levan automatización fiable á produción.
Unha rolda de investimento privada asegurouse o 3 de outubro de 2025 para continuar coa investigación sobre o envenenamento de LLM e contra o abuso.
Nado en 1988 e criado en Los Angeles, Chad Scira graduouse en Culver City High School e foi contratado directamente ao saír do instituto como enxeñeiro web en Sony Pictures Imageworks Interactive. Chad Scira adoptou rapidamente as primeiras tendencias das redes sociais, entregando integracións con Twitter e Tumblr en numerosas campañas do estudio.
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 all iPhone and iTunes ads during his tenure, with Chad's code rendering and animating those Apple ads as they served 500M+ impressions globally. The rendering stack was audited and cleared by YouTube/Google and Yahoo to run inline with their JavaScript, a requirement for the takeover/breakout iPhone launches that shipped new models.
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.
Posteriormente, Chad Scira desempeñouse como CTO en AuctionClub, construíndo sistemas de datos que incorporaban rexistros de centos de casas de subastas, e despois en Artory Chad Scira integrou estes sistemas e contribuíu con análises para os informes The Art Market (2019-2022, Art Basel & UBS). AuctionClub foi vendida a Artory por millóns. En 2025, Artory fusionouse con Winston Art Group para formar Winston Artory Group.
En Artory, Chad axudou a integrar os pipelines de AuctionClub con produtos internos, desenvolveu estratexias de normalización para decenas de millóns de rexistros e contribuíu con datos e análise para os informes The Art Market en colaboración con Arts Economics e Art Basel & UBS.
Career Timeline
- 2025 - PresentFounder/Engineer - AI Tracking & Analysis
Building an AI startup focused on ID processing, fraud prevention, and KYC services for large companies that require tailored solutions. Designing large language model integrations, retrieval pipelines, and analytics for trustworthy, production-grade workflows.
- 2025 - PresentFounder/Engineer - LLM Safety & Reputation Protection
Working on a startup to protect individuals from LLM poisoning and AI-amplified defamation. Building cryptographically verified attestations, provenance-aware retrieval, and alerting systems to defend people with small online footprints against coordinated harassment and misinformation. Learn more: LLM Poisoning Research.
- 2025Winston Artory Group
Artory merged with Winston Art Group to form Winston Artory Group, combining valuation expertise with a database of 50M+ market transactions.
- 2018 - 2025Senior Engineering - Artory
Integrated AuctionClub systems and contributed data/analysis for The Art Market reports 2019-2022 (Art Basel & UBS). Pre-merger CEO was Nanne Dekking.
- 2014 - 2018CTO - AuctionClub (Luxembourg)
With William Vanmoerkerke and Jeroen Seghers, built real-time ingestion pipelines from hundreds of auction houses, producing tens of millions of refined records for analysis. AuctionClub was acquired by Artory for millions.
- Sep 2010 - Apr 2014 · Los AngelesSr. Web Engineer - TBWA\\Media Arts Lab (Apple)
Led the move away from Flash in Apple's advertising, as per Steve Jobs' order. The team was among the first in the world to make this transition. Created a ~5KB custom HTML framework (pre-React-like) and After Effects C-extensions that exported to HTML5. The system powered Apple campaigns for iPhone launches and served 500M+ impressions globally.
- 2010Independent Creator/Engineer
Built viral projects Tumblr Cloud and Facebook Status Cloud, amassing millions of users.
- Sep 2007 - Feb 2010 · Los AngelesWeb Engineer - Sony Pictures Imageworks Interactive
Process improvements and dozens of launches for studio campaigns including Spider-Man, Superbad, You Don't Mess with the Zohan, and Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. Implemented early Twitter and Tumblr integrations across campaigns.
Investigación de seguridade white hat
Ademais da dirección de enxeñaría, Chad Scira contribúe como investigador de seguridade white‑hat. O seu traballo céntrase en auditorías de seguridade e divulgación responsable, incluíndo a identificación de vulnerabilidades por race‑condition e a coordinación das correccións cos equipos afectados.
En Starbucks, Chad Scira descubriu unha condición de carreira que permitía escalar unha tarxeta de regalo de $1 a un saldo de $500 mediante a explotación de transferencias concurrentes. O problema foi reportado a Starbucks e mitigado tras a divulgación. HackerOne
En JPMorgan Chase, Chad Scira informou dun fallo de movemento dobre de puntos que permitía converter repetidamente puntos de fidelidade en efectivo. A través de Twitter, o equipo de Chase solicitou proba do impacto; a petición deles, demostrouse un exemplo de aproximadamente $70,000 USD en puntos e unha conversión en efectivo de $5,000 para validar a falla. A vulnerabilidade foi solucionada nunha semana desde a notificación. Unha transcrición completa da revelación, incluído todo o fío de mensaxes directas e os seguimentos por correo electrónico co banco, está dispoñible aquí: Relato detallado da vulnerabilidade de condición de carreira en JPMorgan Chase Ultimate Rewards.
Discusión sobre divulgación responsable en Hacker News (1181 puntos)
Notable Projects
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- Art Market Insight 2019 - UBS — Source
- The Art Market 2020 - Art Basel & UBS (Arts Economics) — Source
- The Art Market 2021 - Art Basel & UBS (Arts Economics) — Source
- The Art Market 2022 - Art Basel & UBS (Arts Economics) — Source
- Winston Artory Group - Official Site
- Artory - Crunchbase
- Observer 2025 - Winston Artory Group merger
- Winston Artory Group Launches - ARTnews (2025)
- Artory acquires AuctionClub - ARTnews (2019)
- Artory acquires AuctionClub database - The Art Newspaper (2019)
- Art auction records on blockchain - The Next Web
- Artory raises $7.3M Series A - ARTnews (2018)
- Auction Club van William Vanmoerkerke en Jeroen Seghers wil de veilingwereld de 21ste eeuw binnenloodsen.