Christopher Plain
Staff Software Engineer at ServiceNow
Greater Sacramento United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Plain is a Staff Software Engineer in Seattle with nine years focused on software engineering and a long career grounding in data center operations and hardware engineering. He has progressed from hands-on roles like data center technician and field application engineer to systems and cloud capacity engineering at Microsoft and ServiceNow, where he now influences architecture and operational scalability. Christopher blends deep operational experience with software skills—making him adept at bridging hardware realities and cloud-native systems design. He trained formally in computer science and software engineering (Western Governors University, The Firehose Project) after an eclectic early career that even included professional ballet, reflecting discipline and adaptability. Known for practical problem-solving, he often surfaces infrastructure improvements that reduce operational toil and improve service reliability. Based in Seattle, he brings a rare combination of low-level systems knowledge and modern cloud engineering to distributed systems challenges.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering, Software Engineering at Firehose ProjectBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Western Governors University
Github Skills (43)
sublime-text10
database10
colors9
intellij9
color-scheme9
databases9
sqlite9
sql9
sql-database9
vscode9
embedded-database9
webassembly9
alacritty9
rust8
obsidian8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
christopherplain/hammer
Aug 2018 - Aug 2023
Contributions:59 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 1 month
cpplain/algorithms
Mar 2017 - Feb 2026
Contributions:46 pushes, 3 branches in 9 years 1 month
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