Chris Kinsman
Sr Director - Software Engineering at T-Mobile
Redmond, Washington, United States
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SeniorChris Kinsman is a seasoned software engineering leader with 13 years in senior management roles and a 30+ year engineering career spanning startups to large enterprises, currently serving as Sr Director of Software Engineering at T-Mobile in Redmond. He combines deep technical expertise across cloud, containers, DevOps and the full stack—from data centers and storage to web browsers—with hands-on architecture and SaaS platform experience (Kubernetes, Snowflake, Postgres, NodeJS, .NET). Known for leading large-scale process transformations, he has repeatedly moved organizations to agile SDLCs, built high-performing cross-functional teams, and managed multiple concurrent enterprise programs. Chris has a history of founding and advising organizations (Vergent Software, PushSpring) and running community efforts for .NET developers, showing a blend of entrepreneurial drive and community stewardship. He’s equally comfortable translating complex technical concepts for business stakeholders and diving into infrastructure or code when needed, often improving availability and operational maturity by orders of magnitude. A pragmatic technologist, he pairs architectural rigor with practical delivery—repeatedly turning legacy products into scalable, cloud-native services.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (200)
bots10
visual-studio10
geocoding10
nodejs10
amazon10
terraform-provider10
google-play10
controller10
sms10
terraform10
docker-container10
base6210
editor10
csv10
aws-codedeploy10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
chriskinsman/disque-eventemitter
Feb 2016 - Oct 2019
An EventEmitter wrapper for Disque GetJob
Contributions:3 releases, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
getjobdisqueeventemitter
chriskinsman/redis-ratelimit
Jan 2015 - Jul 2022
Sliding window rate limiter based on redis sorted sets
Contributions:2 releases, 32 commits, 2 PRs in 7 years 6 months
redisredis-clientsorted-setssliding-windowrate-limiter
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