Chris Lawson
Software Development Engineer II at Amazon
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Lawson is a pragmatic software engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building scalable systems, currently developing global payment reporting and invoicing tooling at Amazon. A Cal Poly computer science major and former sysadmin for the campus amateur radio club, he combines production-grade backend engineering with operational awareness around networks and systems. As co-founder and engineering lead of GreenSight Technologies, he applied AI to automate identification and pricing of used electronics, boosting resale efficiency and enabling circular-economy outcomes. His background includes leading service desk teams, rural network engineering, and competitive robotics programming—evidence of a wide technical footprint from low-level hardware integration to cloud-native services. Always interested in practical impact, he favors projects that blend machine learning with real-world workflows to drive measurable efficiency gains.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis ObispoHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Atascadero High School
Github Skills (190)
python10
automation10
validation10
hal10
schema-validation10
poly10
cal10
certificate10
google10
sanitization10
type-safety10
validate10
javascript9
type-inference9
rating9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
Chris2fourlaw/calpoly-its-dashboard
Nov 2021 - Mar 2022
Electron dashboard for the ITS Service Desk
Contributions:51 commits, 4 PRs, 45 pushes in 4 months
electrondeskservice-deskdashboardelectron-dashboard
Plan2Gather/app
Dec 2023 - Mar 2025
Plan2Gather is a simple app to help you plan your gatherings
Contributions:62 PRs, 146 pushes, 53 branches in 1 year 2 months
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