Chris Newman
Principal Engineer at Internet Engineering Task Force
Pasadena, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Newman is a Principal Engineer with 18+ years building standards-driven, highly scalable messaging and server infrastructure, currently shaping Oracle’s messaging server and IETF protocol implementations from Pasadena. He brings deep protocol expertise across IMAP, SMTP, POP, LDAP and TCP-based internet standards, coupled with practical skills in authentication/security, i18n, fault tolerance, and both synchronous and asynchronous multi-threaded architectures. A long-time active participant and former Applications Area Director at the IETF, he blends standards leadership with hands-on engineering to ensure interoperability and real-world deployability. His career spans academia to commercial products—designing university-scale IMAP systems at Carnegie Mellon, sustaining cross-platform IMAP servers at Innosoft, and advancing messaging at Sun/Oracle. Known for attention to parsing and protocol detail (ABNF, XML/XSLT, JSON) and for architecting proxy- and cloud-friendly solutions, he focuses on making robust, standards-compliant systems that scale. Even where the work is low-level, he emphasizes practical operational concerns like authentication flows, date/time handling, and resilient integration.
18 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science Computer Engineering, BS Computer Science Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon UniversityLakeside School
English
Github Skills (35)
meta10
testing10
jmap10
bdd10
robotframework10
selenium9
json9
python9
acceptance-testing9
specification9
automation9
rpa9
automation-framework9
test-automation8
encryption8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
cjnewman/jmap
Jan 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:19 pushes, 8 branches in 4 months
specificationmetajmapprotocol-specificationjson
cjnewman/cyrus-imapd
Jul 2018 - Jul 2018
Cyrus IMAP is an email, contacts and calendar server
Contributions:4 pushes in 1 day
cyruscontactscalendaremailimap
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