Chris Lenfest
Engineer at QuoteWell
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Lenfest is an experienced backend engineer with eight years in software development and a two-decade foundation of systems and low-level work, now based in Austin, Texas. He has led modernization efforts and microservice migrations at enterprises like H-E-B and built critical matching and payout engines at DOSH, before advancing to senior staff roles at Apollo GraphQL where he contributed to the well-known federation project. Comfortable across C++, Java, and cloud-native stacks, he specializes in high-throughput, reliable systems—authoring adaptors for market connectivity and implementing OAuth/JWT services and archival legal-acceptance flows. Chris combines deep systems thinking from his early work on kernel and device-level tools with pragmatic product-driven engineering, driving test automation and maintainability improvements. Notably, his open-source contributions include refactoring and removing deprecated composition code in Apollo’s federation gateway to improve compatibility and developer experience. He holds MS and BS degrees in Computer Science from Georgia Tech and excels at turning complex integration challenges into production-grade, maintainable services.
8 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (10)
graphql10
typescript10
typescripts10
wordpress-graphql10
wpgraphql10
typescript-types10
apollo-federation10
refactor9
refactoring9
linting8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
apollographql/federation
Nov 2021 - Jan 2023
🌐 Build and scale a single data graph across multiple services with Apollo's federation gateway.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:451 reviews, 188 commits, 291 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to refactoring and removing obsolete code related to the composition and processing of GraphQL federation schemas. They removed deprecated compose services, updated linting configurations, and applied these configurations to multiple directories within the project. Additionally, the user made several spelling corrections and fixed warnings, aiming to improve code quality and ensure compatibility with newer versions.
graph-datascaleapollo-federationgatewayfederation
apollographql/federation-rs
Aug 2022 - Feb 2023
Contains source code for Apollo Federation's Rust<--> JavaScript interop
Contributions:4 releases, 44 reviews, 74 commits in 5 months
rustjavascriptapollo-federationfederationjavascript-interop
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