Chris De Graaf
Site Reliability Engineer at Beacon Biosignals
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolChris De Graaf is a Site Reliability Engineer based in Halifax, Nova Scotia with a decade of hands-on experience building reliable infrastructure and developer tooling. He combines SRE pragmatism at Beacon Biosignals with deep open-source contributions to the Julia ecosystem—helping build cross-platform binary packaging (Yggdrasil), package templates, and core HTTP and terminal libraries. His background includes research software engineering at MIT and automation of CI/CD for scientific tutorials, reflecting a mix of production operations, build engineering, and reproducible research. Chris often operates behind the scenes—improving build systems, package reproducibility, and WebSocket robustness—skills that rarely show up on a resume but materially reduce operational friction. Colleagues describe him as a quietly effective engineer who prefers to be reached outside GitHub, and who brings academic rigor to pragmatic SRE problems.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Manitoba
English, French
Github Skills (35)
git10
programming-language10
develop10
http10
linux10
build-system10
websocket10
cmake10
cicd10
pbuilder10
tex10
yaml10
automated-build10
templating10
julia10
Programming languages (30)
Github contributions (5)
JuliaCI/PkgTemplates.jl
Aug 2017 - Dec 2020
Create new Julia packages, the easy way
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:17 releases, 20 reviews, 408 commits in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Chris's commits primarily focus on generating and configuring a Julia package template. They are responsible for setting up the base structure, including documentation and test files. They implemented the core framework of PkgTemplates.jl, including a plugin system, and automated package generation from a configuration.
julia-packagesjulia-languagecreate-newjulia
JuliaWeb/HTTP.jl
Nov 2018 - Aug 2021
HTTP for Julia
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 17 commits, 11 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on enhancing the WebSocket functionality within the `http.jl` library. Their commits addressed closing WebSockets with status codes, handled non-1000 status codes, and refactored the closing mechanism using `try/catch` blocks. Additionally, they contributed to improvements in multipart form handling and made general code improvements, including whitespace removal and adding newlines. They also introduced the TopLayer feature.
julia
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