Chip Warden
Lead Software Engineer at Cox Automotive Inc.
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
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Top SchoolChip Warden is a Lead Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building backend systems and tooling, currently shaping platform work at Cox Automotive in Kansas City. He brings deep Python expertise across web and infrastructure projects—evidenced by contributions to the popular pythonz installer that broadened support for CPython, PyPy and Jython—and a history of roles spanning DevOps, OpenStack, and Django-powered applications. A pragmatic technical leader, Chip has advanced from hands-on systems administration to leading engineering teams while keeping a strong developer mindset. Outside of work he writes prose, plays tabletop RPGs, and draws creative inspiration from science fiction, which informs his collaborative and narrative-driven approach to problem solving.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science Computer Information Systems, Bachelors of Science Computer Information Systems at DeVry UniversityEnglish Computer Science, English Computer Science at University of Arkansas
English, French
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Github Skills (14)
version-control10
management10
versioning10
package-management10
python10
cli9
command-line9
command-line-interface9
documentation7
macos7
homebrew6
x116
virtualenv6
dyld6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
saghul/pythonz
Jul 2014 - Oct 2017
Python installation manager supporting CPython, Stackless, PyPy and Jython
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 13 PRs, 13 pushes in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Chip primarily contributed to the `pythonz` project by adding support for various Python versions, including CPython, PyPy, and Jython. Their work involved modifying the `pythonz/installer/pythoninstaller.py` and `pythonz/installer/versions.py` files to include new Python releases and fix potential issues. Additionally, the user improved documentation and made adjustments to the build process on macOS. Their contributions enabled broader compatibility with different Python distributions within the `pythonz` installation manager.
cpythonjythonpypypythonstackless
lgw4/dotfiles
Jul 2025 - Jul 2026
Contributions:4 reviews, 10 PRs, 65 pushes in 1 year
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