Chris V
Senior Software Engineer at Netflix
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris V is a senior software engineer with 11+ years building high-performance APIs and backend platforms, currently solving scalability and latency challenges at Netflix. He has a strong track record designing customer-facing financial systems—leading backend domains at Simple Finance where he shipped onboarding, billing, fraud mitigation, and a next-gen infrastructure platform using Terraform and Concourse. Comfortable in 24/7 operations, Chris blends hands-on coding with observability and DR planning, and he’s mentored engineers while shaping engineering culture and OKRs. Early career experience spans large-scale enterprise systems and e-commerce APIs, giving him a pragmatic view of reliability across stacks. Based in Madison, WI, he’s known for squeezing performance out of systems and turning operational pain points into repeatable, auditable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering, Software Engineering at Arizona State UniversityAssociate Degree Web Analyst/Programmer, Associate Degree Web Analyst/Programmer at Madison Area Technical College
Github Skills (62)
protocol-buffers10
serialization10
rpc10
aws10
protobuf10
scalafmt10
jetty10
marshalling9
database-access9
jersey9
terraform9
java9
terraform-provider9
servlet9
data-interchange9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
vanvlack/jdub
Mar 2016 - Jun 2018
Contributions:16 pushes, 15 branches in 2 years 2 months
sqldatabasesdatabasejavajdbc
vanvlack/plaid-java
Feb 2018 - Mar 2020
Java bindings for Plaid
Contributions:2 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years
javajava-bindingsplaid
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