Summary
Chris Hawk is a pragmatic software developer based in Calgary with nine years of experience building and maintaining .NET desktop and web applications for mission-driven environments. At C4i Training and Technology he has shipped features, led sprint ceremonies, and contributed to architecture for systems used by military training programs, including WPF MVVM tools and Blazor-based microservice integrations with SQL Server, gRPC and AKKA.NET. He blends hands-on engineering (C#, Visual Studio, Entity Framework) with a focus on process improvement—advocating Scrum best practices, reducing churn, and streamlining onboarding and knowledge transfer. Outside of work he has supported community learning as a volunteer coding instructor and freelancer tutor, reflecting a strong interest in mentoring and practical education. Notably, he’s comfortable across UI, backend APIs, and integration work (Moodle/LMS syncing), making him effective at turning complex operational requirements into reliable software.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Front End Web Development Nanodegree, Computer Science, Front End Web Development Nanodegree, Computer Science at Udacity
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Calgary
General Science, General Science at Mount Royal University
English