Chris Nantau
Staff Software Engineer at Affinity.co
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Top SchoolChris Nantau is a Staff Software Engineer with nine years of experience transitioning from mechanical engineering to building cloud-native, production-grade systems that span full-stack development, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code. He has designed and led large migrations and microservice platforms across Azure, AWS, and Kubernetes, and has a track record of shaving days of work into minutes through templates, tooling and automation. An advocate for best practices, Chris has improved developer velocity and reliability at scale—authoring dotnet templates, a typed Kafka wrapper, and Pulumi/Terraform deployments for 50+ microservice ecosystems. He’s also an active open-source contributor who hardened message-template parsing in the widely used Serilog library, reflecting a knack for precise, test-driven fixes that benefit broad communities. Based in Halifax, he blends robotics/IoT curiosity with systems-level problem solving and a practical engineering mindset rooted in his mechanical and fluid-dynamics research background.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma of Engineering Mechanical Engineering, Diploma of Engineering Mechanical Engineering at Saint Mary's UniversityBEng Mechanical Engineering, BEng Mechanical Engineering at Dalhousie University
French, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (13)
unit-testing10
serilog10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
dotnet9
net9
asp-net9
xamarin-forms6
xamarin6
entity-framework6
asp-net-core6
python6
database6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
serilog/serilog
May 2024 - May 2024
Simple .NET logging with fully-structured events
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 9 comments in 8 days
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on enhancing the message template parsing functionality within the Serilog library. Their contributions include refining alignment parsing logic, handling zero-value alignment, and ensuring format string compliance by allowing a broader range of printable characters. These changes involved refactoring code, adding test cases, and modifying parsing rules to align with the message-template specification. This work resulted in more robust and compliant message template parsing.
dotneteventsstructuredloggerstructured-logging
wareismymind/Parsimony
Mar 2020 - Sep 2021
A flexible option parsing library for dotnet.
Contributions:5 PRs, 11 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 5 months
parsing-librarydotnetparsingoptioncsharp
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