Chris Nixon
Software Engineer at CoPlane
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
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Top SchoolChris Nixon is a systems-minded software engineer with 10+ years building resilient, high-throughput infrastructure across startups and cloud-scale platforms. He’s shipped end-to-end products as a founding engineer at CDR.fyi—designing backend systems, public APIs, and data models for a durable carbon removal marketplace—while also driving platform reliability and cloud migrations at Twilio and Segment. Comfortable across Go, Kafka, Kubernetes, Ceph, and MySQL, he focuses on operational resilience, developer velocity, and scalable event ingestion architectures. Chris combines product-facing chops from early sales and GTM roles with deep engineering execution, which helps him bridge technical design and business outcomes. Now based in New Orleans, he continues to shape climate and infrastructure tooling while maintaining a knack for turning complex distributed problems into pragmatic, auditable systems. An early career in client-facing roles and a humanities BA give him uncommon context for communicating technical tradeoffs to non-technical stakeholders.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering, Software Engineering at Hack ReactorB.A. History, B.A. History at Dalhousie University
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Github Skills (135)
integrations10
analyticsjs10
segment10
javascript10
gatsby10
fastest10
amplitude10
graphql10
react10
facebook-pixel9
monorepo9
compiler9
google-analytics9
css9
chrome9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ccnixon/knapsack
Oct 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:55 pushes, 13 branches in 15 days
segment-integrations/analytics.js-integration-amplitude
May 2017 - Sep 2018
The Amplitude analytics.js integration.
Contributions:7 commits, 11 PRs, 17 pushes in 1 year 4 months
analyticsjavascriptamplitudeamplitude-analytics
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