Chris Constantin
President And CTO at Aligned Software Solutions
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolChris Constantin is a seasoned technology leader and President & CTO with 12+ years building cloud-native platforms and enterprise systems for industries from finance to logistics. He combines hands-on engineering in .NET, Elixir, Ruby, Java/Scala and cloud (Azure/GCP/AWS) with architecture and delivery experience—helping post-product-market-fit SaaS scale reliably. Chris has deep distributed-systems chops (CQRS/ES, messaging, analytics) and has contributed to notable open-source projects such as Akka.NET and Elixir Plug, where he focused on persistence, race conditions, and cryptographic session handling. He’s equally comfortable advising 100,000-employee organizations and bootstrapped startups, with a practical bias for CI/CD, BDD/TDD and operational robustness. Trained as an electrical engineer, he brings systems thinking and low-level rigor to large-scale software design.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
POLITEHNICA București National University for Science and Technology
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Github Skills (16)
concurrency10
plug10
persistence10
csharp10
session-management10
akka-net10
actor-model10
elixir10
dotnet-core10
back-end-development9
shex8
unit-testing8
hex8
exunit8
test-unit8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
akkadotnet/akka.net
Jan 2016 - Aug 2016
Canonical actor model implementation for .NET with local + distributed actors in C# and F#.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:137 commits, 66 PRs, 11 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Chris's primary contribution focuses on the Akka.NET framework's persistence layer. The commits involve modifications to the `Persistence.cs` file, which included addressing race conditions in persistence plugins and optimizing plugin registration. Additionally, they addressed related issues, with a focus on ensuring internal stashes were correctly unstashed after recovery and bringing the implementation in line with the JVM version of Akka persistence.
dotnetconcurrencydistributed-actorsdistributed-programmingc-sharp
elixir-plug/plug
Oct 2014 - Nov 2014
Compose web applications with functions
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 19 days
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the core logic and functionality of the Elixir Plug library. Their work included implementing and refining key generation, particularly focusing on its integration within session cookie stores. They addressed issues related to key length, iterations, and digest customization. Furthermore, the user improved the security and robustness of the library by trimming keys to a specific size and implementing PKCS7 padding.
web-applicationserlangcomposeplugcompose-web
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