Chris Skalenda
Principal Software Engineer at Honor
Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Skalenda is a Principal Software Engineer with 16 years of experience building reliable systems across embedded, backend, and frontend domains from Colorado. His career spans roles at Qualcomm, Pluralsight, Tanium, and leadership positions including VP of Engineering at Scoot, where he combined hands-on development in WebRTC, Angular, and Python with hiring and DevOps practice-building. Chris excels in Linux and systems work—early career wins include kernel bring-up and porting large embedded products—and later roles focused on scalable web services, React/TypeScript front ends, and cloud infrastructure (Terraform, Docker, EC2). He contributes to open-source tooling, notably enhancing a Python IRC bot with persistence and live .NET code execution, reflecting a pragmatic, full-stack tinkerer who enjoys making developer tooling and integrations more useful. Known as a "software typist" on GitHub, he blends deep low-level expertise with modern cloud-native and frontend stacks to move teams from prototype to production.
17 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at The University of Texas at Dallas
Github Skills (7)
irc10
sqlite10
python10
api-design8
csharp7
dotnet-core7
fsharp7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
rmmh/skybot
Jul 2009 - Feb 2019
Python IRC bot
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 commits, 7 PRs, 5 comments in 9 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on expanding the functionality of the Python IRC bot. They added new features such as the `.seen` and `.tell` commands, along with associated database interactions using SQLite. The user also implemented improvements, including handling whitespace and adding relative timestamps to the `.seen` and `.tell` commands. Furthermore, the user integrated a .dotnetpad plugin, enabling the execution of C# and F# code snippets via a web service.
irc-botpython
sklnd/dots
Jan 2015 - Nov 2025
Contributions:26 pushes, 1 branch in 10 years 11 months
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