Chris Barna
Systems Architect at The Atlantic
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Barna is a systems architect with 17 years of experience designing and shipping web platforms for major media organizations, currently shaping The Atlantic’s systems and frontend architecture. He has led engineering teams and major refactors—most recently steering Axios’s move to Apollo GraphQL and building their custom CMS frontend—while fostering testing and collaborative code review practices. Comfortable across the stack, Chris blends Django-based backend work with modern React frontends and robust asset pipelines to deliver responsive, editor-friendly publishing tools. Based in New York, he pairs technical leadership with hands-on development and an unusual personal touch: a specialty in bread baking that reflects a methodical, process-oriented approach to problem solving.
17 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
American UniversityHigh Tech HighBachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics (Political Science double major), Bachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics (Political Science double major) at Santa Clara University
Github Skills (133)
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jekyll10
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ctbarna/covid-wait-times
Dec 2021 - Jan 2022
Contributions:36 commits, 5 PRs, 29 pushes in 15 days
ctbarna/dotfiles
Jul 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:10 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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