Chris Ching
Principal Software Engineer at TCI (Teachers' Curriculum Institute)
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolChris Ching is a Principal Software Engineer with 15 years of full-stack experience, currently leading architecture and delivery at TCI in Los Angeles. He combines hands-on coding with infrastructure ownership, having driven migrations from static EC2 hosts to containerized ECS deployments, introduced Terraform and self-hosted CI, and built resilient, observable systems that sustained 0% downtime during peak seasons. Chris excels at performance-minded refactors and ETL orchestration—optimizing rostering and batch jobs to drastically reduce sync times—while promoting cost-conscious infrastructure choices like read replicas and CDNs. A former founder-level developer for school-focused web apps, he brings deep familiarity with large media and data workflows (S3/Drive) and a materials-science engineering foundation from UC Berkeley that informs his pragmatic, systems-thinking approach.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Chemical Engineering, Concentration: Materials Science & Technology, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Chemical Engineering, Concentration: Materials Science & Technology at University of California, Berkeley
EnglishGithub contributions (4)
Chingzilla/ai_racetrack_problem
Nov 2010 - Dec 2010
Contributions:9 commits in 28 days
Chingzilla/pyKonane
Oct 2010 - Nov 2010
Contributions:24 commits in 27 days
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