Chris Pollard
Senior Software Engineer at Aquent
Asheville, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Pollard is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and automating cloud-native systems for startups, higher education, and critical financial institutions. He blends hands-on full-stack development in Python and TypeScript with AWS-centered cloud engineering, having moved from web and systems administration at Baylor College of Medicine to production cloud work at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. Known for streamlining onboarding and operational workflows, he trains technical teams and champions continuous improvement through automation. Based in Asheville, NC, he’s comfortable in fast-paced product environments like Nextbite and in compliance-conscious, mission-critical settings. His background reflects a rare mix of operational reliability and product-oriented engineering that helps teams ship secure, scalable systems faster.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Bachelor of Arts - BA at University of Oregon
Github Skills (91)
cms10
python10
authentication10
automation10
computer-science10
ssh10
fundamentals10
login-system10
django10
ansible10
science10
algorithm10
content-management-system10
loggly10
user-experience10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
cspollar/static_site
Feb 2018 - Jun 2020
Testing Netlify and Pelican Static Site Generator
Contributions:4 PRs, 6 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 5 months
static-sitepelican-static-site-generatortestingsite-generatornetlify
CCITatBCM/environment
Feb 2018 - May 2019
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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