Chris Cantrell
Staff Software Engineer at Vertiv
Huntsville, Alabama, United States
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Top SchoolChris Cantrell is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of professional experience and a decades-long track record of building embedded, backend, and web systems from the ground up. Based in Huntsville, AL, he blends creative writing instincts with rigorous engineering—often digging into binary formats, protocol handlers, and design patterns to craft elegant solutions. He’s delivered Python asyncio protocol servers, C++ Redfish implementations, NATS and gRPC/REST bridges, and full CI test suites while also leading UI efforts for embedded gateway products. A practiced teacher, he regularly trains developers and STEM teachers in Java, Python, C++, and web technologies, bringing clarity to complex topics. He has shipped hardware-integrated projects (sensor hubs, Raspberry Pi test stations) and contributed bug fixes and PRs to upstream open-source tooling, showing both product and community-minded engineering. Known for fine-detail curiosity, he pairs low-level systems chops with pragmatic APIs and user-facing interfaces.
11 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
BSEE/MSEE, Neural Networks, VLSI Design, BSEE/MSEE, Neural Networks, VLSI Design at University of AlabamaMaster's of Science in Electrical Engineering, Master's of Science in Electrical Engineering at The University of Alabama
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Github Skills (59)
svn10
disassembly10
arcade10
restful-api9
json9
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swagger9
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nodejs9
hal9
grpc9
openapi9
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
topherCantrell/computerarcheology
Oct 2014 - Oct 2022
All of the code and resources backing computerarcheology.com (moving from SVN there)
Contributions:3 reviews, 631 commits, 31 PRs in 8 years 1 month
disassemblysvnretrogamingarcade
topherCantrell/class-HTMLCSS
May 2017 - May 2022
Contributions:69 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 1 month
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