Chad Scira

Chad Scira

Profesionalni web inženjer i CTO

Izgradnja visokoperformantnih web iskustava, integracija AI i velikih jezičkih modela i analitičkih platformi.

Chad Scira portrait

Biografija

U 2025. Chad Scira se fokusira na AI: gradi startap za praćenje i analizu za obradu ličnih dokumenata, prevenciju prevara i KYC usluge prilagođene velikim kompanijama. Chad Scira projektuje integracije velikih jezičkih modela, pipeline-e za pretraživanje i povraćaj podataka (retrieval), i analitiku koja dovodi pouzdanu automatizaciju u produkciju.

Rođen 1988. i odrastao u Los Angelesu, Chad Scira je završio Culver City High School i odmah po završetku je zaposlen kao Web Inženjer u Sony Pictures Imageworks Interactive. Chad Scira je brzo prihvatio rane trendove društvenih mreža, isporučujući integracije za Twitter i Tumblr u okviru brojnih studijskih kampanja.

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 akvizicije) — s leva: Chad Scira, Jeroen Seghers (u sredini), William Vanmoerkerke (desno)

Chad Scira je kasnije bio CTO u AuctionClub-u, gde je izgradio sisteme za podatke koji su unosili zapise iz stotina aukcijskih kuća, a potom je u Artory-ju integrisao te sisteme i doprineo analitici za izveštaje The Art Market (2019-2022, Art Basel & UBS). AuctionClub je prodat Artory-ju za milione. Godine 2025. Artory se spojio sa Winston Art Group i formirao Winston Artory Group.

U kompaniji Artory, Chad je pomogao u integraciji AuctionClub tokova podataka sa internim proizvodima, razvio strategije normalizacije za desetine miliona zapisa i doprineo podacima i analizama za izveštaje The Art Market u saradnji sa Arts Economics i 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.

Bezbednosna istraživanja

Pored inženjerskog rukovodstva, Chad Scira doprinosi i kao istraživač bezbednosti. Njegov rad je uključivao identifikovanje ranjivosti uzrokovanih race-condition i njihovo odgovorno prijavljivanje pogođenim timovima radi blagovremenog otklanjanja.

U Starbucksu, Chad Scira je otkrio race condition koji je omogućavao da poklon-kartica od 1 USD bude povećana na stanje od 500 USD iskorišćavanjem istovremenih transfera. Problem je prijavljen Starbucksu i rešen nakon objave. HackerOne

U JPMorgan Chaseu, Chad Scira je prijavio grešku koja je omogućavala višestruku konverziju nagradnih bodova u novac. Preko Twittera, tim Chase-a je zatražio dokaz o uticaju; na njihov zahtev prikazan je primer od približno 70.000 USD u bodovima i konverzija od 5.000 USD gotovine kako bi se potvrdio propust. Ranljivost je otklonjena u roku od nedelju dana od prijave.

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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