Chris Kant
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Kant is a seasoned software developer with 14 years of experience designing and maintaining large-scale distributed web services, including a decade-plus tenure at Amazon where he progressed to Senior SDE. Based in Seattle, he combines deep backend systems knowledge with full-stack contributions to developer tooling—most notably improving the popular AWS Toolkit for VS Code with SAM debugging, CodeLens, and S3 integrations. Known for pragmatic refactors and developer-experience enhancements, he focuses on reliable, scalable systems while smoothing the local dev and debugging workflow. A Binghamton CS graduate with a 3.9 GPA, he brings a strong academic foundation to complex production challenges and a track record of shipping improvements that help other engineers be more productive.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.9, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.9 at Binghamton University
Github Skills (14)
typescript10
typescripts10
aws10
vscode-extension10
typescript-types10
aws-cloudformation9
javascript9
webview8
android-webview8
aws-s38
s3-bucket8
amazon-s38
debugging7
debug7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
aws/aws-toolkit-vscode
Mar 2020 - Jul 2020
Amazon Q, CodeCatalyst, Local Lambda debug, SAM/CFN syntax, ECS Terminal, AWS resources
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:30 commits, 50 PRs, 66 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the AWS Toolkit for VS Code, implementing new features and improving existing ones. They added a quick feedback form, incorporating web view components and integrating it into the AWS Explorer panel. They also refactored code related to SAM debugging configurations and enhanced the SAM debug experience by restricting tests to the current file and increasing the maximum supported SAM CLI version. Additionally, the user worked on showing CodeLenses for SAM functions and various S3-related commands.
aws-lambdaserverlessaws-resourcesawsecs-exec
ckant/joplin-plugin-better-code-blocks
Sep 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:8 releases, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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