Chris Eastwood
Head Of IT Systems Engineer at Lightspeed
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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RockstarChris Eastwood is Head of IT / Systems Engineer based in Washington, D.C., with a decade of hands-on experience building and operating reliable infrastructure and developer tooling. He combines leadership of IT teams with deep back-end and DevOps expertise, routinely improving build pipelines and cross-platform compatibility. His open-source work on the sqlkata/querybuilder repo demonstrates practical skills in multi-target .NET builds, cross-OS configuration, and dependency modernization—areas that directly reduce friction for developer teams. At Lightspeed he focuses on turning complex operational requirements into maintainable systems and repeatable release processes. Colleagues know him for pragmatic refactors that unlock long-term maintainability rather than quick fixes. He brings a systems-oriented mindset that balances engineering craft with operational accountability.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (9)
csharp10
build-automation10
cicd10
dotnet-core10
netframework10
msbuild9
nuget9
query-builder8
sql7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
sqlkata/querybuilder
Sep 2017 - Oct 2019
SQL query builder, written in c#, helps you build complex queries easily, supports SqlServer, MySql, PostgreSql, Oracle, Sqlite and Firebird
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:5 releases, 90 commits, 19 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on enhancing the build process and supporting multi-targeting for the C# query builder. Their work included refactoring project files, updating NuGet dependencies, and modifying build scripts to use `dotnet test` instead of `dotnet xunit`. They also addressed platform-specific build configurations, ensuring compatibility across different operating systems, and implemented changes to support .NET Framework, enhancing the project's compatibility and build processes.
sqlserverdata-access-layerc-sharpcomplex-queriesmysql-sqlserver
ceastwood/querybuilder
Sep 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:36 pushes, 26 branches, 1 tag in 1 month
querysqlservermysql-sqlservermysqlsql
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