Chris Hoogeboom
Staff Software Engineer at CloudZero
Burlington, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolChris Hoogeboom is a Staff Software Engineer with a decade of experience blending applied mathematics rigor with pragmatic system design, currently building cloud-native capabilities at CloudZero from Burlington, MA. He has a strong background in algorithmic problem-solving and architectures, honed through waveform optimization and electro-optical experimentation at E Ink and earlier research at Los Alamos National Laboratory. At Wayfair he scaled production services as a senior engineer, and he contributes to prominent open-source projects such as Confluent's Kafka Python client—improving schema registry compatibility, tests, and documentation. Known for translating complex, nonlinear requirements into reliable APIs and automation, he pairs deep analytical training (M.S. in Applied Mathematics) with hands-on backend and test automation craftsmanship. Colleagues rely on him for clean designs, thorough testing, and thoughtful improvements that bridge research-grade math and production software.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Applied Mathematics, Master of Science (M.S.) Applied Mathematics at University of Massachusetts Amherst
Spanish
Github Skills (10)
testing10
unit-testing10
kafka10
api10
pytest10
schema10
python10
apidoc10
confluent9
librdkafka8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
confluentinc/confluent-kafka-python
Sep 2020 - Mar 2021
Confluent's Kafka Python Client
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Backend Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:1 review, 9 commits, 5 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Chris contributed to the development of the Confluent Kafka Python client, focusing on enhancing the schema registry client functionality. Their work includes implementing a method to test compatibility with the schema registry, adding associated tests, and updating documentation. They also made improvements to existing tests, ensuring the proper functioning of the schema registry client. Furthermore, the user addressed code formatting issues.
pythonkafka-pythonconfluent-cloudpython-clientkafka-protocol
hoogamaphone/web-epub-generator
Nov 2015 - May 2020
Contributions:68 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
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