Chris Horn
Principal Engineer at Tanium
City of Rochester, New York, United States
Summary
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SeniorChris Horn is a Principal Engineer with 17 years of experience building full-stack Internet services and guiding products from prototypes to production at Tanium. He brings a rare blend of hands-on technical depth and empathetic leadership—mentoring teams, running Kanban projects, and inventing practical refactoring techniques that enabled new product launches. As a former CTO/owner at Metrix Matrix he delivered SaaS platforms, ETL pipelines, analytics and monitoring while handling vendor, compliance, and hiring responsibilities. He has led high-impact engineering efforts at security and analytics-focused companies, turning crises into sustainable solutions and scaling complex systems. Based in Rochester, NY, Chris thrives on collaboration and pair programming, and enjoys translating ambiguous problems into clear, customer-centered features. An educator at heart, he routinely pairs coaching with coding to elevate teams and drive durable technical outcomes.
17 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
English
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Github Skills (59)
linux10
matching10
ruby10
homebrew10
parsing9
macos9
package-manager9
x509certificates9
certificate-transparency8
location8
rails8
karabiner8
keyboard8
hsts8
macos-sierra8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
chorn/dnsimple_cli
Apr 2016 - Nov 2017
Contributions:8 commits, 3 PRs, 6 pushes in 1 year 7 months
apidnsimplednscli
chorn/rollers
Mar 2016 - Jul 2020
Contributions:13 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 5 months
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