Chris Pinkham
Principal Domain Architect at Schedules Direct
Lynden, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Pinkham is a Principal Domain Architect with 24 years of hands-on experience building and hardening enterprise infrastructure across Linux, Windows, virtualization (VMware, OpenStack), storage and networking. Based in Lynden, Washington, he blends low-level systems programming (C/C++) and scripting (Python, Perl, PHP) with operational expertise to deliver resilient, scalable services in healthcare and open-source ecosystems. He leads development at Falcon Christmas and serves on the board of Schedules Direct, demonstrating sustained community and product stewardship. His open-source work includes backend improvements to the widely used MythTV and Falcon Player projects and cross-platform fixes for xLights, highlighting a knack for robust media and scheduling systems. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architecture decisions that bridge legacy enterprise constraints with modern automation and API design.
24 years of coding experience
B.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at Bob Jones UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at Tidewater Community College
Github Skills (24)
json10
c-language10
multiplatform10
back-end-development10
cross-platform10
makefile10
wxwidgets10
fileio10
file-handling10
file-processing10
database-management10
file-access10
backend10
cprogramming-language10
http-streaming9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
FalconChristmas/fpp
Sep 2013 - Jan 2023
Falcon Player
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 3594 commits, 55 PRs in 9 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Chris focused on enhancing the functionality of the Falcon Player software. They modified the media player to support different casing for file extensions, added support for playlist nesting, and improved the UI by integrating a new file chooser dialog for media and sequence files. Additional changes included fixing bugs related to scheduling and the user interface for a more robust and user-friendly experience.
audiofalconplayer
MythTV/mythtv
Mar 2003 - Aug 2013
The official MythTV repository
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1611 commits in 10 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Chris's contributions primarily involved enhancements and bug fixes to the MythTV backend, focusing on the file transfer and recording management features. The user implemented a new backend API call to delete recordings, and enhanced existing functionality with new arguments. The user also made changes to improve the display and handling of recordings. Finally, the user corrected bugs related to the HLS transcoding process.
mythtv
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