Chris Passas
Orlando, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Passas is a Principal Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building high-performance, large-scale data ingest, storage, and search systems, currently driving architecture and delivery at runZero. He has deep expertise in systems design, performance tuning, and metrics-driven decision making—skills honed while designing netflow storage/query engines, high-throughput WHOIS and internet scanning pipelines, and scalable tagging and lookup infrastructures at Team Cymru. Chris combines hands-on backend engineering (including contributions to the popular CodeIgniter PHP framework) with product-focused leadership, consistently aligning technical trade-offs to business needs. Based in Orlando, he brings a pragmatic blend of low-level optimization and API/platform design, and a history of turning proofs-of-concept into production services that process millions of events per second.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Information Technology, Bachelor of Science (BS), Information Technology at University of Central Florida
English
Stackoverflow
91reputation
12kreached
3answers
2questions
Github Skills (14)
configuration-management10
php-framework10
php10
git7
http6
ajax6
iframe6
go6
webserver6
gzip6
lifecycle6
go-gin6
scripting6
nginx5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
bcit-ci/CodeIgniter
Feb 2013 - Feb 2013
Open Source PHP Framework (originally from EllisLab)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits in 3 days
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on enhancing the CodeIgniter framework's logging functionality. They introduced the ability to customize the log file extension, allowing developers to use `.log` or other preferred extensions instead of the default `.php`. Further improvements included removing the no-script access code for non-PHP log files and correcting a minor formatting issue. Additionally, they reverted and then re-implemented a change to the `is_https` function to better handle SSL configurations in nginx environments.
phpframeworkphp-frameworkphp7php8
chrispassas/nfdump
Apr 2020 - Jan 2023
Contributions:2 reviews, 13 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years 10 months
netflowfile-readerflowsreader
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