Chris Townsend
North Carolina, United States
Summary
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SeniorChris Townsend is a senior engineering leader with over a decade of experience building scalable, secure distributed systems and data platforms for research and public safety. As Senior Manager at RTI’s Center for Data Science, he leads cross-functional Agile teams to deliver cloud-native SaaS (notably a web-based 911 analytics platform) with automated CI/CD, TDD, and Docker/Swarm orchestration for burstable, production-grade workloads. His background spans high-performance computing and large-data engineering—running Monte Carlo storm simulations on 2400-core EC2 clusters, designing Spark and RabbitMQ-based distributed kernels, and tuning large SQL Server warehouses. He combines hands-on development in Go, Python, C#, and Linux with strong mentoring, QA and security stewardship to make teams self-sufficient. Comfortable translating research needs into production systems, he has repeatedly automated secure, fault-tolerant deployments for sensitive datasets (including genomics) and defense-related imaging pipelines. Based in Apex, NC, he pairs practical ops experience with a finance degree and formal data science coursework to bridge business, research, and engineering.
10 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
3,082reputation
350kreached
60answers
21questions
pyspark
top-5%
rdd
top-5%
apache-spark
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Github Skills (68)
catalog9
django9
api9
ckan9
rdd9
apache-spark9
cffi9
python9
pyspark9
ctypes9
open-data9
pypy8
cms8
docker8
wagtail8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ctownsen357/Dockerfiles
Sep 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:31 commits, 1 PR, 30 pushes in 10 months
dockerfiledockerfilesdocker
rtidatascience/frontend-dev-exercises
Nov 2017 - Aug 2020
Contributions:2 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 2 years 9 months
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