Chris Cannon
Senior Software Engineer II at CrowdStrike
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Cannon is a Senior Software Engineer II with 14 years of experience building scalable, data-driven systems and leading engineering teams from Philadelphia. He has driven performance and cost optimizations (e.g., cutting EMR costs by 80% and reducing a daily job’s runtime by 66%) and led cross-functional projects that bridged data science, infrastructure, and product. Comfortable across backend services, cloud (AWS), Kubernetes, and CI/CD, he has implemented API gateways in Go, S3-backed SFTP solutions, and database migration tooling to streamline production workflows. Chris pairs hands-on coding with people leadership—managing and mentoring engineers, running post-mortems, and owning hiring and performance processes. His background spans startups and security-focused enterprise work at CrowdStrike, showing a blend of rapid iteration and production rigor. An engineer who literally says “code is king,” he surfaces efficiency gains through pragmatic architecture rather than hype.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science and Master of Science, Computer Science, GPA: 3.37, Bachelor of Science and Master of Science, Computer Science, GPA: 3.37 at Drexel University
Github Skills (89)
sentry10
django10
monitoring9
error-logging9
security9
python9
metadata9
sliding-window9
akamai9
svg9
ansible-galaxy9
networking9
devops9
crash-reports9
monitor9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
chriscannon/highlander
Feb 2015 - Mar 2020
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Contributions:39 commits, 5 PRs, 58 pushes in 5 years 1 month
chriscannon/advent-of-code
Dec 2018 - Dec 2019
Contributions:66 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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