Christopher Cowell
Solopreneur at Tech at Your Pace
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolChris Cowell is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building and leading engineering teams in the Bay Area, currently at Tanium after a five-year tech lead stint at Nightfall AI. He has a strong track record shipping production systems and guiding technical direction at growth-stage companies, previously driving platform work at Rally Health. Trained at App Academy and Ohio State, he combines formal CS foundations with immersive bootcamp pragmatism, favoring delivery-focused engineering and mentorship. Based in San Francisco, he balances hands-on coding with tech leadership, often translating complex security and data-protection requirements into practical, scalable implementations. While not a prolific public GitHub profile, his consistent career progression indicates deep experience in building reliable, secure services for enterprise and health tech customers.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Philosophy, Ph.D., Philosophy at University of California, Berkeleypost-baccalaureate study, Philosophy, post-baccalaureate study, Philosophy at University of MichiganBachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at Harvard UniversityVisiting Scholar, Philosophy, Visiting Scholar, Philosophy at Princeton University
English, Swedish
Github Skills (13)
temporal9
sdk7
golang7
api6
zendesk-api6
api-client5
workflow-automation5
workflow-engine5
workflow-management5
open-source5
client-library4
zendesk4
go2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
cowell21/cowell21.github.io
Jun 2014 - May 2019
Contributions:3 commits, 12 pushes in 4 years 11 months
cowell21/temporal-dataconverter-encryptor-go
Sep 2021 - Nov 2021
Contributions:2 releases, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
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