Chris Lewis
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Credit Genie
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolChris Lewis is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 15 years of experience designing and delivering robust object-oriented systems, particularly in Java, and currently driving engineering at Credit Genie in New York. He has a strong track record leading teams and solving architectural and logical challenges across geographically distributed organizations, with senior roles at Dataminr and Meetup. Chris blends hands-on backend expertise—evidenced by contributions to the Scala HTTP toolkit unfiltered (adding JSON and gzip responders and improving PDF handling)—with practical product-minded leadership. Comfortable as both lead developer and mentor, he repeatedly translates ambiguous user requirements into clear system specifications and reliable implementations. Colleagues rely on his communication skills and pattern-driven design approach to steer complex projects to production.
15 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science Software Applications Programming, Associate of Science Software Applications Programming at ITT Technical InstituteCollege of the Albemarle
English, Italian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (13)
http10
scala10
webserver9
json8
jetty8
netty8
gzip7
keyword6
xml6
parsing6
if-statement6
control-flow6
websocket5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
unfiltered/unfiltered
Nov 2010 - Sep 2015
A toolkit for servicing HTTP requests in Scala
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:72 commits, 8 PRs, 6 pushes in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Chris contributed to the `unfiltered/unfiltered` project, a Scala toolkit for HTTP request servicing. Their primary focus was on enhancing the library's functionality, with commits addressing binary content type handling and character set fixes for PDF content. The user also worked on type-safe construction of Scalate render contexts, improving the project's template rendering capabilities. Furthermore, they added a JSON responder and implemented a gzip responder, expanding the response handling options available in the project.
http-requestswebsocketsweb-serverhttp-clientscala
meetup/cupboard
Jan 2017 - Jan 2020
library making it easier, safer, and less boilerplatey to store and query data from google datastore
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
querydatastoretypescriptsafergoogle-datastore
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