Chris Curtin
Chief Application Developer
Canton, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Curtin is a seasoned software engineering executive with over 30 years of experience designing and delivering large-scale, mission-critical distributed applications, currently serving as Chief Application Developer at ADP. He has a strong track record at IBM and Silverpop leading migrations from monoliths to microservices, enabling weekly release cadences, and driving cloud-native architectures using Kubernetes, Docker, Spring Boot and NoSQL technologies. A hands-on principal architect and mentor, Chris combines pragmatic technical leadership with client-focused product delivery that consistently improves scalability, security, and revenue. He contributes to open-source tooling around high-performance data structures—enhancing Redis Sentinel support for Bloom filter libraries—and has repeatedly led due diligence and M&A integrations that brought talent and tech into production. Based in Acworth, GA, he pairs deep systems-level expertise with a knack for predicting obstacles and selecting the right emerging technologies for business outcomes.
13 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of Massachusetts Amherst
Github Skills (7)
jedi10
javas10
redis-sentinel10
bloom-filter10
redis10
java10
unit-testing8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Baqend/Orestes-Bloomfilter
Sep 2016 - Dec 2016
Library of different Bloom filters in Java with optional Redis-backing, counting and many hashing options.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 6 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on enhancing the project's Redis integration, specifically related to Bloom filters. They implemented support for Redis Sentinel configurations and externally managed Redis pools. The commits include modifications to the `RedisPool` class and the addition of configuration classes for both standalone Redis instances and Sentinel setups. Additionally, the user added test classes and a helper method to facilitate the use of Redis Sentinel in tests.
bloom-filterjavaredis
Silverpop/engage-api-client
Oct 2015 - Sep 2019
Engage API Client Code
Contributions:4 releases, 23 commits, 36 PRs in 4 years
api-clientapiengagepythonclient-code
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