Chris Kessel
Senior Engineer at Reclaim.ai
Beaverton, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Kessel is a Senior Engineer with over 12 years of hands-on experience designing and delivering robust Java-based systems across industries including medical devices, video-on-demand, and high-performance SaaS. He blends deep craftsmanship—grounded in influences like Brooks, Fowler, and Martin—with pragmatic practices such as TDD and DDD to produce maintainable, customer-focused products. Chris has led technical teams and backend initiatives at companies from FlightStats to Reclaim.ai, consistently owning architecture, reviews, and lifecycle discipline. Comfortable with adjacent languages like Groovy and integration formats (SOAP/XML/JSON), he excels at translating business motivations into elegant technical solutions. Based in Beaverton, Oregon, he pairs a Masters in Software Engineering with a long track record of mission-critical delivery and an uncommon interest in the history and lessons of the software craft.
12 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Software Engineering, Masters Software Engineering at Oregon Graduate InstituteBS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of Oregon
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Github Skills (155)
swagger10
guice10
specification10
rest-api10
openapi10
api-specification10
swagger-ui10
api10
rest10
java10
hibernate10
jersey-framework10
gradle10
kotlin10
injection10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
flightstats/flex-example-clients
Nov 2015 - Nov 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 31 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year
rest-apiapiclient-codeflex
chriskessel/Dominions4Mods
Aug 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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