Chád (shod) Darby is an author, instructor and speaker in the Java development world. 

Chád is a contributing author to several Java books, including  Professional Java E-Commerce (Wrox Press), Beginning Java Networking  (Wrox Press), and XML and Web Services Unleashed (Sams Publishing). 

Chád has Java certifications from Oracle and IBM. 

He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.