Chris Maurer
Software Engineer at NorthWestern Energy
Bozeman, Montana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Maurer is a seasoned software engineer with 20 years of full-stack experience building and maintaining web and enterprise systems using PHP, C#, .NET, JavaScript, Java, SQL, and IBM Integration Bus. Based in Bozeman, Montana, he currently architects and implements solutions at NorthWestern Energy after prior engineering roles at Nxtbook Media and Listrak and early web development leadership at Lancaster Newspapers. He brings strong backend discipline—demonstrated by meaningful Java contributions and bug fixes to the well-known Sakai open-source learning platform—alongside practical frontend and integration experience. Comfortable merging legacy systems and modern stacks, he often focuses on robustness, resource cleanup, and keeping integrations in sync across branches. His work reflects an operator’s mindset: shipping reliable code that keeps production services humming while reducing technical debt. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Millersville University and favors pragmatic, maintainable solutions over novelty.
20 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at Millersville University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (12)
javas10
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api8
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application-integration8
enterprise-integration8
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data-integration8
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
sakaiproject/sakai
Nov 2005 - Nov 2022
Sakai is a freely available, feature-rich technology solution for learning, teaching, research and collaboration. Sakai is an open source software suite developed by a diverse and global adopter community.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 reviews, 568 commits, 116 PRs in 17 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Chris's commits primarily focus on modifying Java code within the Sakai project. Their contributions involve fixing bugs, ensuring proper cleanup of resources, and integrating patches from other developers. They demonstrate a familiarity with the project's structure, by touching on various tool components and core modules, including content, chat, assignment, and message forums. The user's work also includes the integration of updates from subversion branches, merging changes into the trunk.
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indiana-university/lms-canvas-common-configuration
Sep 2021 - Feb 2023
Common configuration bits that are useful to the lms-canvas LTI tools
Contributions:1 review, 14 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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