Chris Ginter
Staff Software Engineer at Airbnb
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Ginter is a Staff Software Engineer in San Francisco with 13 years of experience building full-stack systems and infrastructure, currently shaping Airbnb’s analytics metric platform. He specializes in distributed systems, stream processing, and storage, and has run production-critical services at Stripe serving millions of QPS and led media transfer and storage infrastructure at Netflix. A pragmatic generalist, Chris moves comfortably from frontend performance work—like cutting JavaScript bundle sizes and building internal frameworks—to designing high-availability backend platforms and caches. He’s an active open-source contributor to sqlglot, enhancing SQL parsing and dialect support (e.g., DATE_TRUNC and NULLSAFE_EQ) which reflects his interest in data tooling and interoperability. Early startup and founder experience give him product-minded engineering instincts and hands-on ownership across the stack.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Y CombinatorBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at University of Florida
English
Github Skills (10)
sqlc10
sql-parser10
sql10
python10
tsql10
postgresql9
starrocks7
mysql5
bigquery5
unit-testing4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
tobymao/sqlglot
Sep 2022 - Nov 2022
Python SQL Parser and Transpiler
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 reviews, 10 commits, 25 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on enhancing the SQL parser and transpiler functionalities of the `sqlglot` repository. Their contributions included implementing support for various SQL features, such as different constraint expressions in PostgreSQL, expanding ORDER BY functionality, and handling null-safe equality. The user also added support for the DATE_TRUNC function for StarRocks and implemented the NULLSAFE_EQ operator. These changes collectively improved the parser's capabilities and dialect support, enhancing the project's overall versatility.
pythontranslationtsqlparserredshift
ginter/sqlglot
Sep 2022 - Jun 2024
Python SQL Parser and Transpiler
Contributions:41 pushes, 20 branches in 1 year 9 months
sql-parserpythonsqltranspilerpython-sql
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