Chris Lea
Principal Software Engineer at Marqeta
Phoenix, Arizona, United States
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Top SchoolChris Lea is a Principal Software Engineer with 15 years of experience building resilient cloud and infrastructure systems, currently shaping platform engineering at Marqeta. He has led teams at enterprise scale as Director of Software Engineering at Salesforce and brought hands-on DevOps expertise from NodeSource, where he maintained widely used Node.js binary distribution scripts. Chris blends technical leadership with product sensibility honed as a CTO and VP of Business Development, making him comfortable both shipping code and aligning engineering with business outcomes. Based in Phoenix, he pairs a physics degree from UNC Chapel Hill with deep practical knowledge of Linux package and build pipelines. Outside work he’s a yoga practitioner, avid music fan, and—perhaps tellingly—a burrito connoisseur, signaling a practical, grounded approach to problem-solving. His open-source contributions to the nodesource/distributions project reflect a knack for durable, cross-platform tooling that powers many production Node.js deployments.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Physics Highest Honors and Distinction Physics Mathematics, B.S. Physics Highest Honors and Distinction Physics Mathematics at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Github Skills (13)
sh10
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bash10
shell10
nodejs10
debian10
scripting10
ubuntu10
compilation9
linux9
runtimes7
javascript7
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
nodesource/distributions
Oct 2014 - Jan 2019
NodeSource Node.js Binary Distributions
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:131 commits, 47 PRs, 104 pushes in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Chris's contributions primarily focus on setting up and configuring installation scripts for various versions of Node.js, spanning versions 3.x to 11.x. This involved modifying and adding scripts specifically designed to install Node.js repositories on Debian and Ubuntu systems. The user also updated build scripts to reflect current Node.js releases and added support for various Linux distributions.
distributionsnode-jsjavascriptnodejsbitbake
chrislea/django-rest-framework-tutorial
Feb 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:27 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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