Chris Veilleux
Principal Back End Engineer at Ingenovis Health
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
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Top SchoolChris Veilleux is a Principal Back End Engineer with 8+ years of focused backend and infrastructure experience and a long history in high-throughput systems dating back to roles in trading and enterprise software. Based in Kansas City, he leads architecture and engineering efforts—most recently at Ingenovis Health—bringing deep expertise in Python, PostgreSQL, ETL, and scalable API design. At Mycroft AI he shepherded core platform improvements and automation for an open-source voice assistant, contributing notable refactors to the message bus and CI automation that improved community-driven development. He’s pragmatic about performance and observability, having designed database schemas, tuned SQL, and built monitoring and daemonized data pipelines in production. Colleagues rely on him for clear data design, mentor-driven leadership, and a knack for turning messy legacy systems into maintainable, well-documented platforms.
7 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
University of Missouri
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Github Skills (16)
message-bus10
configuration-management10
automation10
automations10
websocket10
github-api10
python10
natural-language-processing9
cicd9
testing9
yaml9
nlp9
github-ci8
githubaction-workflow8
collaboration7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
MycroftAI/mycroft-skills
Mar 2020 - Dec 2021
A repository for sharing and collaboration for third-party Mycroft skills development.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:8 reviews, 76 commits, 16 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on automating the integration testing process for Mycroft skills. Their contributions involved developing a script to build a configuration file for the test suite, incorporating changes from pull requests. They also refactored the code, implemented the use of an API key for GitHub access, and updated the logic to handle scenarios where no skill changes are present in a pull request by providing default behavior.
third-partyvoice-controlmycroftpartyapps
MycroftAI/mycroft-core
Jul 2019 - Nov 2022
Mycroft Core, the Mycroft Artificial Intelligence platform.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:60 reviews, 186 commits, 50 PRs in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on refactoring the message bus service, adding docstrings, and improving configuration retrieval. They also removed unused code, specifically a validation parameter. The contributions involved renaming the message bus client and abstracting config loading, sharing configuration between service and client. These changes indicate a focus on improving the core infrastructure of the Mycroft AI platform.
pythonnatural-language-processingraspberry-piartificialnatural-language
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