Chris Vale
Chief Software Engineer at FlyingWalrus LLC
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolChris Vale is a Chief Software Engineer with 15+ years building distributed, fault-tolerant microservices and a long history of high-performance, low-latency systems for gaming and enterprise products. Based in San Francisco, he combines deep hands-on expertise in Scala, Java, C/C++, Redis, RabbitMQ, HBase and MySQL with practical leadership—leading engineering teams and shipping production systems rather than managing from afar. His recent work pivots into reactive web and mobile applications for professional services while continuing to architect resilient back-end platforms. Past roles from Rocket Lawyer and Credit Karma to Optum reflect repeated responsibility for rewards, incentives, and large-scale data-driven services. He runs a stealth startup (FlyingWalrus) that surfaces his product curiosity and continued appetite for building new platforms. A physicist by training, he brings rigorous problem-solving and systems thinking to complex distributed architectures.
15 years of coding experience
33 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Physics, B.S., Physics at Humboldt State UniversityBishop MiegeSaint Mary's College High School
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Github Skills (180)
http10
combinator10
rest10
json10
finagle10
twitter-api10
finch10
circe10
buffer10
twitter9
datastax-enterprise9
finatra9
zipkin9
memcached9
dotty9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
flyingwalrusllc/iteratee
May 2016 - Dec 2017
Contributions:3 PRs, 8 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 7 months
openzipkin/zipkin-finagle
Jun 2018 - Oct 2022
Contributions:22 releases, 4 reviews, 32 commits in 4 years 5 months
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