Chris Townsend
Senior Manager, Systems Analysis & Programming Center For Data Science
Apex, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolChris 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
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Finance, General, Bachelor’s Degree, Finance, General at University of North Carolina at WilmingtonData Science Specialization offered through Coursera.org, Data Science, Data Science Specialization offered through Coursera.org, Data Science at UNCW, Coursera : John's Hopkins, Duke, and others
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Github Skills (92)
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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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