Hi, I'm Chad. By day I'm a Principal Software Engineer turned Dev Manager. The job is air-gapped platform engineering at Kubernetes scale: reliability, security, and lately the question of what current AI tooling changes about how the job itself should be done. More than two decades in, I'm still excited and still being surprised.
By night I'm a small business owner, a Journeyman beekeeper, and a builder of things:
- Mayfield Mountain Honey: a boutique beekeeping operation focused on land reclamation and mountain beekeeping. Launching soon.
- ApiaryOS: a beekeeping management platform I'm developing because I wanted better tools for my own bees.
- Sensor firmware: Walter SoM, nRF52840, and ESP32-based hive and apiary monitors. The "metal to the middleware" mindset from the day job doesn't switch off when I get home.
- A small constellation of websites including link shorteners, telemetry APIs, personal and business sites, and other utilities. Each one solved a problem I had or gave me an excuse to try a stack I hadn't used.
What I'm into right now: Stoic philosophy (currently re-reading The Obstacle is the Way), and the working question of where AI engineering tools earn trust and where they don't. I run most of my own pair programming through Claude Code these days, and I have opinions about how to use it well. I read widely, from technology to agriculture to religious and philosophical material. The /learning page tracks what I've found worth recommending.
I live in Utah with my family (whom I actually like). When I'm not at the keyboard or in the apiary, I'm hiking in the mountains, fly fishing, or dreaming up a new adventure or project.
Have feedback, questions, or a job opportunity? The simplest way to reach me is /contact.
Elsewhere
- chadrmayfield@twitter
- I might be social here in the future, but not currently
- chadrmayfield@instagram
- my corner of the web where I used to share photos
- chadmayfield@linkedin
- my professional network (outdated)
- /contact
- the simplest way to reach me
last updated · June 2026