Chris Goddard
Hobbyist Systems Engineer at Spinning Cat Studios
Greater Melbourne Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Goddard is a systems-focused software engineer with 11 years of experience designing and shipping scalable backend infrastructure and web platforms. He has delivered high-throughput production systems—rebuilding a webhooks pipeline that processed over 6 billion events in a year and migrating critical services from Ruby-Sinatra to Go for an $800M+ ARR platform. More recently he pursues independent R&D: authoring the Tungsten programming language to a verified triple-compile fixed point, prototyping an agent orchestration and fleet management system aimed at 10–30× developer productivity gains, and re-architecting a metaverse platform in Rust with a hexagonal design. Comfortable across distributed systems, developer tooling, and rapid-iteration platforms, he combines deep mathematical training (doctoral work in mathematics) with hands-on engineering. Based in Greater Melbourne, he balances hobbyist projects with practical product delivery and brings an unusual blend of theoretical rigor and production pragmatism to infrastructure problems.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Melbourne
Chinese, English
Github Skills (6)
html10
javascript10
front-end-development10
api9
apim9
css8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
zendesk/demo_apps
Nov 2018 - Dec 2019
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 5 PRs, 16 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on developing a Zendesk app, implementing features within an iframe. They added and modified HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code to display a cat image fetched from an external API. Their work involved integrating with the Zendesk app framework, handling API requests, and dynamically updating the user interface. Furthermore, they added functionality to adopt new cats.
token-cjg/protongraph
May 2021 - Apr 2022
Experimental node-based software for procedural content generation
Contributions:53 PRs, 89 pushes, 54 branches in 11 months
proceduralcontent-generationprocedural-content-generationnode-based
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