Anton Kropp
Software Engineer at Chime
Seattle, Washington, United States
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SeniorAnton Kropp is a Principal Engineer in Seattle with 13+ years building high-throughput, resilient systems across startups and large companies, currently shaping platform and API architectures at Taxbit. He blends deep functional-programming expertise (Scala, F#, advanced type theory) with pragmatic systems work in C#/Java/C++, distributed systems, and infra automation, having architected core banking for 1M+ customers and indexed 200B+ transactions for real-time search. Anton is a hands-on leader who reduces on-call burden and deployment friction through smarter CI/CD, type safety, and operational tooling—skills honed at Stripe, Chime, and Copper Banking. An active open-source contributor, he optimized and refactored functional utilities in notable F# projects (FSharpx.Extras), and outside engineering he pursues diverse crafts from sailing and synths to Brazilian jiu-jitsu, reflecting a practical curiosity that drives cross-disciplinary solutions.
14 years of coding experience
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Github contributions (5)
fsprojects/FSharpx.Extras
Sep 2013 - Sep 2013
Functional programming and other utilities from the original "fsharpx" project
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits in 3 days
Contributions summary:Anton primarily contributed to adding and refactoring functional programming utility functions within the FSharpx.Core library. Their work involved implementing and optimizing Haskell-inspired functions such as `pad`, `intersperse`, `toLines`, and `toWords`. The user demonstrated a focus on code optimization by refactoring functions to use imperative loops and utilizing a `StringBuilder` for enhanced performance. They also added tests using FsCheck to validate the correctness of the new functions.
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paradoxical-io/scala-tiny-types
Feb 2015 - Oct 2016
Contributions:1 release, 45 commits, 6 PRs in 1 year 9 months
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