Chris Cleeland
Senior Software Engineer at DRW
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
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Top SchoolChris Cleeland is a Senior Software Engineer with nearly three decades of hands-on experience building low-latency, high-performance distributed systems, from embedded real-time stacks to massive market-data infrastructures. He excels in modern C++ and kernel-bypass techniques for ultra-low-latency trading systems, and has repeatedly modernized legacy toolchains and delivery pipelines across organizations. A long-time contributor to open-source projects since the early 1990s, he combines deep ORB/ CORBA and networking expertise with practical devops practices like CI, containerized builds, and dependency management. Comfortable leading design and mentoring teams or diving into production incident triage, he is known for squeezing extra life and performance from existing hardware through careful, cache-friendly algorithms. Based in St. Louis, he brings a pragmatic, systems-level perspective that balances microsecond-level optimizations with big-picture architecture and security concerns.
29 years of coding experience
37 years of employment as a software developer
BSE, Computer Engineering, BSE, Computer Engineering at Tulane UniversitySt. Louis University High
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Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
cleeland/GoldenCheetah
Mar 2015 - Nov 2020
Cycling Performance Software for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows
Contributions:2 pushes, 7 branches in 5 years 9 months
mac-oswindowslinuxmacperformance
cleeland/node_exporter
Apr 2024 - Jan 2025
Exporter for machine metrics
Contributions:16 pushes, 2 branches in 8 months
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