Chris Blackburn
Senior Software Engineer at Meadow
Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolChris Blackburn is a senior software engineer with 11 years of experience who transitioned from measurement science to full-time software development two and a half years ago and now focuses on full‑stack work. He has built feature-rich web applications using Node.js/Express, React/Redux, TypeScript and MongoDB across roles at Meadow, LaunchDarkly, Upside Business Travel and CrossLead. His background at NIST in metrology and tape calibration gives him a disciplined, data-driven approach to problem solving and quality assurance that informs his engineering decisions. Comfortable across front-end and back-end stacks, he consistently ships pragmatic solutions that balance product needs with maintainability. Based in Silver Spring, MD, he pairs a Master’s in computer science from Johns Hopkins with a mathematics undergraduate foundation to tackle both algorithmic and systems-level challenges.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics, Mathematics at Bowling Green State UniversityMaster’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at Johns Hopkins Engineering for ProfessionalsBachelor’s Degree Mathematics, Bachelor’s Degree Mathematics at University of Pittsburgh
English, Italian
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Github Skills (49)
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launchdarkly9
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
blaqbern/eclectic-syntax
Mar 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:18 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
blaqbern/dotfiles
Jan 2017 - Jan 2025
Contributions:39 pushes, 3 branches in 8 years 1 month
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