Chris Shea
Principal Software Engineer at Axonify
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Shea is a Principal Engineer in New York with 12 years of experience building and leading engineering teams across startups and mission-driven organizations. He combines a rigorous math background and an MFA in creative writing to produce readable, well-tested systems and clear technical documentation. Skilled in Scala and Clojure, Chris has bootstrapped new projects, modernized legacy platforms, and scaled services that handled millions of users and complex election data pipelines. He has led hiring, onboarding, and cross-functional alignment as an engineering leader and architected production-grade pipelines and microservices at Democracy Works and Patch. Known for pragmatic clean code and an eye for developer ergonomics, he also brings an unusual blend of analytical and narrative thinking to engineering problems.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BA Math and Literature, BA Math and Literature at UC Santa BarbaraMFA Writing, MFA Writing at School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Github Skills (117)
ruby10
webextension10
firefox10
data-processing10
kudu10
homebrew10
vip10
aerospike10
democracy9
rabbitmq8
barcodes8
presto8
python8
datomic8
send-sms8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
tie-rack/pnglitch
Nov 2018 - Mar 2021
Glitch a PNG in your browser!
Contributions:7 PRs, 27 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 4 months
glitchpngimagebrowser
democracyworks/kehaar
Feb 2015 - Nov 2019
Pass messages between RabbitMQ and core.async.
Contributions:39 PRs, 96 pushes, 41 branches in 4 years 9 months
rabbitmqasync-channelsclojure
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