Chris Howey
Sr. Coordinator, SCADA
Houston, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolChris Howey is a seasoned SCADA systems specialist with over 15 years of hands-on experience designing, supporting, and automating industrial control and data-communication workflows. Currently Sr. Coordinator, SCADA at Enterprise Products, he has a track record of building applications that interface with SCADA databases to streamline nominations, metering, tanking and line-pack processes while reducing manual toil through automation. Comfortable in both field-facing and back-end roles, Chris has led technical project delivery, mentored teams, and modernized polling and configuration architectures for more reliable device communications. An active open-source Go contributor, he’s improved system-level tooling and cross-platform mobile/terminal behaviors in widely used projects such as restic and Fyne, reflecting deep systems knowledge beyond traditional SCADA stacks. Based in Houston, he blends pragmatic troubleshooting with development discipline to deliver timely solutions under competing deadlines.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
B. Sc, Computer Science, B. Sc, Computer Science at University of CalgaryDiploma, Arts & Science, Diploma, Arts & Science at Mount Royal University
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Github Skills (25)
mobile-development10
multiplatform10
back-end-development10
windows10
linux10
fyne10
cross-platform10
terminal-application10
inotify10
system-calls10
go10
amazon-s310
android10
golang10
aws-s310
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
howeyc/fsnotify
Oct 2011 - Jun 2022
File system notification for Go
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:152 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 10 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Chris was a back-end developer focused on implementing file system notification functionality for Go. Their work included the initial implementation of the inotify system for Linux, followed by enhancements that added functionality, and improved formatting. The contributions involved creating and refining core structures, managing events, and adapting to the needs of the project across different operating systems.
golangnotificationsnotificationnotification-systemfile-system
restic/restic
May 2015 - Nov 2015
Fast, secure, efficient backup program
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 commits, 5 PRs, 18 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Chris contributed to the `restic/restic` repository, focusing on back-end improvements and bug fixes. Their work included addressing FreeBSD-specific issues related to file system interactions, optimizing the `ls` command, and improving the S3 backend. Key contributions involved modifications to file handling logic and network connections in the context of backup and restoration tasks. They have enhanced system-level interactions and improvements to existing functionality.
securededuperesticdeduplicationsecure-by-default
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