Chris Schanck
Software Engineer at Meta
Marriottsville, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Schanck is a seasoned software engineer and tech lead with 13+ years building scalable storage and distributed systems, currently contributing at Meta from Marriottsville, MD. He has deep expertise designing NoSQL and inference database storage engines—having led development of TCStore’s sovereign key/value engine and a copy-on-write B-tree index—and has architected systems that scale to multi-terabyte and billion-assertion datasets. Chris combines hands-on implementation (from Java serialization engines and cycle-accurate simulators to streaming JSON protocols) with global team leadership, having managed cross-continental engineering teams and driven product roadmaps. His background spans embedded systems, hardware-compilation toolchains, and enterprise software, giving him an unusual blend of low-level performance optimization and high-level architecture. Pragmatic and detail-oriented, he’s known for turning complex requirements into robust, auditable systems and for championing remote collaboration and engineering discipline.
13 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Penn State UniversityMS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at The Ohio State University
Github Skills (55)
ehcache10
normal10
terracotta9
java-heap9
heap8
telegram8
statistics8
solidworks8
java8
terraform8
test-kitchen8
dsl7
messenger7
abstraction7
android-app7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
cschanck/offheap-store
Mar 2016 - Aug 2020
Contributions:44 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 6 months
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