Chris Janidlo
Research Software Engineer at University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolChris Janidlo is a Research Software Engineer based in Chicago with nine years of experience building full-stack web applications, mixed and augmented reality experiences, and research-focused infrastructure. Currently contributing to FuncX within the Globus group at the University of Chicago, he blends production-grade engineering with research workflows and distributed function execution. His background spans consulting and startup environments, giving him a practical knack for shipping features across frontend, backend, and XR projects. A prolific side-project enthusiast and game creator, he actively experiments on GitHub (crassSandwich), which informs his creative problem-solving and rapid prototyping approach.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Rochester
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Github Skills (59)
high-performance10
science10
unity2d9
metadata8
terminal-emulator8
unity-editor8
thread8
table-of-contents8
animation7
redis7
cg7
csharp7
markdown7
deterministic7
csharp-script7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
globus/globus-compute-common
May 2022 - Feb 2025
A common core repo for tools shared across multiple Globus Compute Python projects
Contributions:4 releases, 49 reviews, 65 PRs in 2 years 9 months
pythonpython3python-projectsfuncx
crassSandwich/witchos
Mar 2020 - Mar 2021
Source for WitchOS, the magic-enabled operating system. Originally made in a week for the 142nd weekly game jam, but has grown continually ever since.
Contributions:2 reviews, 98 PRs, 294 pushes in 1 year
jamoperating-systemmagiceverlinux
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