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Christopher Salam

Christopher Salam

Sr. Software Engineer (Tech Lead) or Engineering Manager Roles

Berkeley, California
(760) 953-2322
English, Spanish

Background


About

About

Berkeley, CA.

Always open to site reliability, backend, devops, or full-stack engineering roles. Open to Engineering Manager roles in specific circumstances.

Work Experience

Work Experience

  • Sr. Software Engineer (Tech Lead)Byte

    March 2023 - Present

    Integrations (Backend/DevOps/Infra)

    • Leadership: Agile development: kanban standup, roadmap, calibration, retro, jira, confluence

    • Mentored other engineers, scheduled meetings, started eng team social & office hours

    • Supporting build, test, lint, sdk, dependencies & deploy pipeline. BitBucket, Azure, Typescript

    • Developed multistep queued file transfer process from salesforce storage to azure storage

    • Developed authentication methods with function application development, api migration

  • Sr. Software EngineerTwitter

    May, 2020 - November 20222 year 8 months

    Customer Experience Applications Team. (React/NodeJS/Typescript, Java, Scala)

    • Twitter acquired CrossInstall in 2020. Maintained repos for CrossInstall while learning new role

    • Externalized (initially Cloudfront VPN) 20 React apps across Twitter Ads - Scala.

    • Maintained React FrontEnd: Ads Portal, Internal Tools, brand safety emergency

    • Managed AWS:Route53/ELB/s3/ec2(standard, spot) for ad serving, data collection

    • Scripted baSh/Node transfer migrating from AWS:EC2->S3 for improved distribution

  • Sr. Software EngineerCrossInstall

    Jun, 2017 - May, 20202 years 11 months

    Creatives Team. Fullstack Data analytics and interaction metrics from playable advertisements (Javascript, Python)

    • Architected dev/QA tools: SQL, Redis, Bash, Node, PHP, Jenkins. 4000+ ad viewer / library

    • Resolved capacity issues and memory issues in ad data pipeline, Improved ETL pipeline

    • Coordinated automated infrastructure & build pipeline for ad library 13 partner integrations

  • Software EngineerZiploop

    Jan, 2016 - Jun, 20171 year 7 months

    Startup. Retail Loyalty. (Javascript, Cordova Android/iOS, AWS)

    • Migrated iOS (UIWebView to WKWebView), eCommerce platforms API integration

    • Custom API Accessed contacts & other mobile features via Cordova in iOS/Android SDKs

  • Software Engineer, Freelance

    Jul, 2014 - Dec, 20151 year 5 months

    Various e-commerce clients (Ruby, Javascript, Python)

    • Continue to consult and work on bugsfixes for on-going commerce and single-page applications

    • Worked with designer and other developers remotely and developed project management skills

  • Chemical EngineerRCM International

    Apr, 2013 - Oct, 20141 year 5 months

    Biogas Production, Filtration

    • Managed on-site construction of anaerobic digesters, oversaw team (4) laborers/electricians

    • Developed prototype hybrid gas upgrader with $1M budget over five projects as technical lead.

  • Petroleum EngineerDepartment of Conservation

    Dec, 2011 - Aug, 20131 year 8 months

Skills

Skills

  • Full Stack
    TypescriptNodeExpressReact PythoniOS - SwiftEmberBackbone SEOCSSSeleniumNightmareReactTestingLibraryRegExp
  • Database & Site Reliability
    AzureAWSScalaMEAN/MERN GCPRoute 53Git SubtreeSplunkNodePythonRuby/RailsSQLGraphQLThrift
  • Bridge Technologies & APIs
    Cordova/PhonegapAWS EC2CrosswalkElectronYoutube API AWS ELB - Elastic Load BalancerAWS LambdaGmail APIReact Native
  • Packages, Build Systems, & Testing
    yarnnpmGulpGruntBower LinuxHomebrewjspmXcodeSplunk Phabricator Arc
Education

Education

  • Software Engineering, JavaScript Immersive, Telegraph Academy

    Jun, 2015 - Sep, 2015

  • Biological Systems Engineering, Master's, University of California Davis

    Sep, 2009 - Jan, 2011

  • Environmental Engineering, Bachelor's, University of California Riverside

    Sep, 2003 - Jun, 2007

Publications

Publications

  • Investigation of Poultry Waste for Anaerobic Digestion , University of California Davis

    Published on: Jan 14, 2011

    Investigation of Turkey Waste for Mesophilic and Thermophilic Digestion.

  • Zero Waste Biodiesel , Environmental Protection Agency

    Published on: Aug 31, 2007

    Zero Waste Biodiesel tested organic wastes with biodiesel waste to create fuel pellets for use in cold climates.

  • Honorable Mention, N.S.F. (National Science Foundation)

    Awarded on: Nov 01, 2008

Volunteer Work

About Me

  • Board Member for Spokeland

    Jan, 2012 - Present

    Nonprofit Co-op, we teach and empower people to repair their own bicycles.

  • During college, I owned a party bus and I worked as a freelance mechanic while living at the Domes.