Chris Carpita
Senior Platform Engineer
New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolChris Carpita is a Senior Platform Engineer with 18 years of experience building scalable infrastructure and developer-facing tooling across startups and large tech firms. He has driven platform and infrastructure work at Butterfly Network and Coast, and earlier contributed full‑stack engineering to Spotify’s Ads Automation team, blending backend systems design with pragmatic product delivery. His open‑source contributions include enhancing bpkg, a lightweight bash package manager, adding GitHub Enterprise and multi-remote support—showing attention to real-world developer workflows. Based in New Jersey and grounded in an Operations Research & Industrial Engineering degree from Cornell, he pairs systems thinking with hands‑on scripting and ops expertise. Colleagues find him effective at bridging engineering, automation, and operational reliability to accelerate teams shipping production software.
18 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Operations Research & Industrial Engineering, B.S. Operations Research & Industrial Engineering at Cornell University
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Github Skills (14)
sh10
script10
bash10
shell10
package-management10
scripting10
installers9
githubaction-workflow9
github-ci9
package-manager9
installer9
bash-shell9
appstore6
iphone6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
bpkg/bpkg
Oct 2014 - Jun 2015
Lightweight bash package manager
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 8 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the backend aspects of the bash package manager. Their work involved adding support for GitHub Enterprise (GHE) and multiple remote repositories, enhancing the package installation process. They modified the install script to accommodate these changes, including adjustments to how remote package sources are accessed and handled, which improved the versatility of the package manager. This also included introducing a new utility for listing package repositories based on a wiki index.
bash-scriptinginstallerpackage-managershell-scriptslinux
pytown/kitefly
Apr 2021 - Apr 2023
Generate Buildkite YAML with composable type-checked models and customizable filters
Contributions:10 PRs, 12 pushes, 10 branches in 2 years
code-generationcodegenfilterscode-generatorcustomizable
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