Chase Sterling
Software Systems Integration Engineer
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChase Sterling is a Software Systems Integration Engineer in Pittsburgh with 17 years of hands-on experience integrating and hardening production systems for datacenter environments. He progressed from operations and technician roles into engineering leadership at H5 Data Centers and vXchnge, combining deep operational know-how with software-driven automation. An active open-source contributor, Chase has improved reliability and testing across widely used Python projects like requests, telegraf, and the Deluge BitTorrent client, often focusing on edge-case fixes, cross-platform robustness, and maintainability. He brings a pragmatic, backend-focused skill set—writing serializers, processors, and scheduler improvements—paired with attention to tooling and Windows path quirks that often go unnoticed.
17 years of coding experience
Johns Hopkins UniversityUniversity of Pittsburgh
English, Dutch, German
Github Skills (40)
unit-testing10
monitoring10
git10
caching10
pytest10
python10
json-schema10
testing10
plugin-development10
telegraf10
http10
data-serialization10
serialization10
gtk10
go10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
Flexget/Flexget
May 2009 - Dec 2022
The official FlexGet repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 128 reviews, 4456 commits in 13 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Chase contributed to the core functionality of the FlexGet project, making fixes to plugins and features. The contributions involved improving the quality of the code through enhancements such as fixes to the file system, unit tests, and database logic. The changes show a focus on fixing bugs and refining the existing features within the framework.
rssmoviespythontorrentautomation
scragg0x/realms-wiki
Dec 2015 - Nov 2016
Git based wiki inspired by Gollum
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:87 commits, 39 PRs, 18 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Chase primarily focused on developing and improving the back-end functionality of the Git-based wiki. They implemented support for subdirectories, improved search functionality, enabled caching of wiki pages, and added the ability to view the index of subdirectories. The user also added the ability to get the author's email address to the history results. Furthermore, the user updated the codebase to remove the gittle dependency, using dulwich directly, demonstrating a focus on codebase maintainability and efficiency.
gollumwiki
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