Chris Bandy
Senior Software Engineer at Snowflake
Allen, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolChris Bandy is a senior software engineer with 16 years of experience building and operating data-intensive systems, currently focused on platform engineering at Snowflake after a multi-year senior role at Crunchy Data. He blends deep backend and database expertise—evident from meaningful contributions to well-regarded open-source projects like lib/pq, mysql2, and pgweb—with hands-on DevOps and agile practices across the full development lifecycle. At Sittercity he advanced from senior engineer to head of data engineering, combining leadership with pragmatic coding and infrastructure ownership. His open-source work shows a penchant for subtle but impactful improvements: safer connection management, performance-minded query refactors, and cleaner parsing/serialization logic. Based in Allen, Texas, he brings a pragmatic, quality-first approach to distributed systems and database drivers, favoring maintainability and correctness over flashy rewrites.
16 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Science at The University of Texas at Austin
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Github Skills (30)
connection-pooling10
structures10
struct10
postgresql10
mysql10
utf10
testing10
connect10
connection-manager10
ruby10
php10
database-driver10
go10
connection-pool10
sql10
Programming languages (32)
Github contributions (5)
lib/pq
Oct 2014 - Dec 2016
Go PostgreSQL driver for database/sql
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 18 commits, 16 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the `lib/pq` repository, a Go-based PostgreSQL driver. Their work included fixing issues related to Go version compatibility and optimizing the code. They implemented support for array Scanners and Valuers, enhanced the handling of UUIDs by receiving them in binary format, and improved error handling within the array types. Additionally, the user refactored SSL configuration by moving it off the connection and added improvements.
databasedrivergopostgresqlsql
kohana/core
Oct 2010 - Feb 2013
Core system classes from Kohana
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:31 commits in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on code quality improvements and bug fixes within the Kohana core framework. They addressed issues such as adding parentheses to complex expressions in ternary operations, refactoring variable names to lowercase, and cleaning up whitespace and parentheses for better code readability. Additionally, the user updated and improved several UTF8 functions, addressing formatting and style issues. The user also committed changes related to exception handling and route management.
kohana
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