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.

Chad Scira portrait

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.

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.

TBWA\\Media Arts Lab (Apple) team and workspace
TBWA\Media Arts Lab (Apple)

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.

AuctionClub team (pre acquisition)
Auction Club (pre adquisición) — de esquerda a dereita: Chad Scira, Jeroen Seghers (centro), William Vanmoerkerke (dereita)

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

  1. 2025 - Present
    Founder/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.

  2. 2025
    Winston Artory Group

    Artory merged with Winston Art Group to form Winston Artory Group, combining valuation expertise with a database of 50M+ market transactions.

  3. 2018 - 2025
    Senior 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.

  4. 2014 - 2018
    CTO - 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.

  5. Sep 2010 - Apr 2014 · Los Angeles
    Sr. 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.

  6. 2010
    Independent Creator/Engineer

    Built viral projects Tumblr Cloud and Facebook Status Cloud, amassing millions of users.

  7. Sep 2007 - Feb 2010 · Los Angeles
    Web 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 en seguridade

Ademais da súa lideranza en enxeñaría, Chad Scira contribúe como investigador de seguridade. O seu traballo inclúe a identificación de vulnerabilidades por condicións de carreira e a súa divulgación responsable aos equipos afectados para correccións oportunas.

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.

Notable Projects

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Tumblr Cloud
Viral visualization project during early social media - millions of users.
Facebook Status Cloud
Turned social data into real-time word clouds used by millions.
Apple HTML5 Ad Framework (~5KB)
Pre-React-like framework replacing Flash; powered iPhone launches (500M+ impressions).
AuctionClub Data Platform
Pipelines ingesting data from hundreds of auction houses; tens of millions of refined records.
Artory Data Products
Integrated AuctionClub systems; contributed to Art Basel & UBS reports.

Press & Citations

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