Chris Male
Forward Deployed Engineer at Palantir Technologies
New Zealand
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Top SchoolChris Male is a Forward Deployed Engineer with 15 years' experience building enterprise search, compilers/languages, and large-scale data analysis systems, currently at Palantir in New Zealand. He brings deep hands-on expertise from early roles at ElasticSearch and Orange11, contributing to production-grade distributed search and Lucene/Solr ecosystems. His background blends rigorous academic training (MSc with Distinction, BIT Hons) with practical delivery—from near-real-time transactional analytics to complex migration of legacy hierarchies to relational models. Comfortable operating at the intersection of product and tooling, he excels at translating ambiguous requirements into scalable search and data platforms. Notably, his career shows repeated engagement with open source search stacks and compiler work, indicating a rare combination of language-tooling insight and large-scale systems engineering.
15 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Computer Science, Distinction, MSc, Computer Science, Distinction at Victoria University of Wellington
Github Skills (36)
search-engine10
opensearch10
geometry-library10
java10
restful10
gis10
geodesy10
elasticsearch10
geofence10
ogc9
geotools9
geospatial9
shapefile9
gradle-kotlin-dsl8
gradle8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
chrismale/sls-packaging
Sep 2019 - Apr 2020
A set of Gradle plugins for creating SLS-compatible packages
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
gradlegradle-pluginsslstsconfiggradle-kotlin-dsl
locationtech/spatial4j
Mar 2011 - Sep 2012
LocationTech Spatial4j: A Geospatial Library for Java
Contributions:62 commits in 1 year 6 months
geospatialogcgeofencegeodesyjava
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