Chris Hines
Senior Principal Software Engineer at Comcast Cable
Herndon, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Hines is a Senior Principal Software Engineer with 14+ years building resilient, high-performance systems and leading Go-focused engineering teams at Comcast. He combines deep systems and distributed-systems expertise—from multi-threaded and scientific computing to video delivery pipelines—with hands-on coding and mentorship. An active open-source contributor, Chris has improved core Go libraries and tooling (notably contributions to gorilla/mux, go-kit, and HashiCorp's Nomad) where his work often strengthened testing, performance, and cross-platform robustness. He’s practiced at making hard-to-test distributed behaviors predictable, having authored portable test fixes and sped up test suites across repositories. Based in Herndon, VA, he also champions developer communities internally as an Open Source Ambassador and organizer of the Comcast Gophers Club. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex runtime and networking edge cases into maintainable, well-tested code and architecture.
14 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., Computer Science, M.S., Computer Science at Virginia TechB.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at University of Virginia
Github Skills (66)
dependency-management10
go-modules10
url-routing10
transaction10
package-management10
dependency-analysis10
testing10
windows10
microservices-application10
file-operations10
transactionscope10
audit-logging10
microservices10
concurrency10
software-design10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
inconshreveable/log15
Jul 2014 - Nov 2020
Structured, composable logging for Go
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 28 commits, 7 PRs in 6 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the `log15` library, focusing on enhancing its functionality and performance. They implemented features like `CallerFileHandler` and `CallerFuncHandler` to add file name, line number, and function name information to log records, and implemented `CallerStackHandler`, improving debugging capabilities by providing stack traces. They also optimized the library by changing how the `Record` struct stores the call site information, reducing memory use.
golangstructuredloggerstructured-logginglogging
go-kit/kit
Apr 2015 - Aug 2022
A standard library for microservices.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 reviews, 142 commits, 91 PRs in 7 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to improving the logging functionality of the go-kit/kit repository, a microservices library. They focused on enhancing the logging package's documentation and fixing spelling errors. The user also implemented significant changes to the log package, including improvements in performance, thread safety, and handling dynamic values in logging contexts. These improvements included refactoring the core log implementation to reduce allocation overhead.
golangstandard-librarymetallicamicroservicesmicroservice
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