Chris Lyon
Staff Platform Engineer
Clovis, California, United States
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Top SchoolChris Lyon is a Staff Platform Engineer with 14 years of experience building scalable platforms and full-stack systems across startups and large organizations, currently at a stealth startup after a long tenure at Opendoor. He combines high-level platform design with low-level tinkering—ranging from networking and radio protocols to hardware prototyping—bringing rare breadth across system layers. Chris has shipped production platforms, led cross-team integration efforts, and thrived in fast-moving, product-driven environments like YC-backed Open Listings and consumer marketplaces. Based in Clovis, CA, he blends entrepreneurial instincts from a technical co-founder role with deep practical experience in databases, pipelines, and infrastructure. Known for curiosity that started in high school, he excels at turning complex domains into reliable, maintainable systems.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Los Angeles Pierce College
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (61)
redis10
redisearch10
php10
redis-cluster10
php-extension9
relay8
graphene8
formatting8
scrapy7
on-the-fly7
python7
graphql6
crawler6
scraper6
cmake6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Flushot/sqlparse
Jun 2013 - Jul 2014
Contributions:29 commits, 1 push in 1 year 1 month
Flushot/pysupercluster
Dec 2022 - Apr 2024
A fast geospatial point clustering module
Contributions:15 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 4 months
wcspythongeospatialgeographyh3
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