Chris Boden
Senior Manager, Data Engineering
Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Boden is a senior data engineering leader based in Ontario with 15 years of experience building resilient, data-driven platforms and developer-first workflows. Currently Senior Manager, Data Engineering at Super.com, he combines hands-on backend engineering with people leadership—coaching teams, standardizing tooling, and driving observability across data pipelines. A polyglot developer and long-time open-source contributor, Chris has notable contributions to ReactPHP and Ratchet, strengthening event-driven I/O, WebSocket, and async socket implementations. His background includes designing occasionally-connected, conflict-resilient replication systems and offline-first mobile sync, reflecting a strong grasp of distributed systems and UX-aware data design. He repeatedly pairs pragmatic engineering (Airflow, dbt, Singer) with anomaly detection and analytics to turn streaming IoT and product data into actionable insight.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Network Engineering Technician, Computer Network Engineering Technician at Radio College of Canada
Github Skills (20)
reactphp10
http10
websocket10
networking10
libevent10
event-driven10
http-server10
http-client10
php10
socket10
api10
streaming-api10
eventing10
streams-api10
error-handling10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
ratchetphp/Ratchet
Sep 2011 - Dec 2021
Asynchronous WebSocket server
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 5 reviews, 650 commits in 10 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Chris's commits primarily focused on structuring and implementing WebSocket functionality within the Ratchet PHP framework. These contributions included creating core classes such as `Socket`, `Server`, and related interfaces, as well as establishing communication protocols like HyBi-10. The user implemented key aspects of the protocol, including handshake verification, message framing, and un-framing logic for efficient data exchange.
websocketsasynchronousasynciophpwebsocket-server
reactphp/reactphp
May 2012 - Oct 2017
Event-driven, non-blocking I/O with PHP.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:153 commits, 3 PRs, 3 pushes in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Chris contributed to the `reactphp/reactphp` repository, an event-driven, non-blocking I/O library for PHP, primarily by enhancing the `Igorw\SocketServer` component. Their contributions included adding error handling, implementing non-blocking sockets, and improving message delivery. They also made adjustments to the event loop, including configurable buffer sizes and code for use with libevent. These changes focused on improving stability, performance, and the overall robustness of the socket server implementation.
non-blockingphpblockingevent-drivenasync
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