Chris Stevens
Sr Staff Software Engineer at Databricks
Saint Petersburg, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Stevens is a senior staff software engineer and engineering manager with a decade of experience building large-scale distributed systems and developer-facing infrastructure. Based in Saint Petersburg, FL, he has led teams at Databricks that deliver Databricks SQL and the cloud compute fabric—solving autoscaling, query scheduling, and control-plane challenges for data warehouse–class performance on lakes. A former Microsoft engineer and co-founder of the Minoca OS project, he brings low-level OS and networking expertise (notably contributions to Minoca’s netlink stack) alongside cloud-native production experience. Known for a coaching-first management style, he pairs hands-on design and implementation with mentorship to grow high-performing teams.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
A.B., Computer Science, A.B., Computer Science at Harvard University
Github Skills (11)
socket-io10
ip10
socket10
c-programming10
network-protocol10
tcp10
ipv49
ipv69
udp9
multicasting8
multicast8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
minoca/os
Jul 2015 - Jul 2018
Minoca operating system
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:495 commits, 2 PRs, 10 pushes in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Chris's primary focus within this repository appears to be implementing and maintaining the core components of the Minoca operating system's networking stack. Their contributions include building out the foundational netlink network, including the generic netlink protocol, and various improvements. They have also added support for different network address families and related socket options, alongside fixing bugs, which shows work in design and implementation of core network protocols.
kernelmicrokerneldriversoperating-systemoperating
ccstevens/dbsql-rest-api
Sep 2023 - Sep 2023
Databricks SQL Execution Statement API
Contributions:8 pushes, 4 branches in 15 days
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