Chris Winters
Lead Software Engineer at Diamond Kinetics
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Winters is a pragmatic lead software engineer with 16 years of experience designing and shipping server-side systems in Python, Ruby, Java, Go, and JavaScript. He combines hands-on full-stack development with architecture and team leadership, guiding teams through requirements, continuous refactoring, CI/CD, and testing to deliver reliable microservice-based products. His career spans startups to federal service and enterprise roles—driving large-scale transitions like Turnitin’s ML scoring system to national deployment and modernizing monoliths into focused services. Based in Pittsburgh, he pairs a historian’s attention to context with deep technical craft, often building tooling and processes that make teams more autonomous and effective.
16 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. History Computer Science, B.A. History Computer Science at University of Pittsburgh
Github Skills (80)
vault9
text-files9
api-gateway9
database-migration8
service-discovery8
infrastructure8
benchmarking8
kubernetes8
golang7
cocoa7
data-center7
service-mesh7
tester7
consul7
stress-testing7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
cwinters/exercise
Oct 2011 - Nov 2014
Contributions:34 commits in 3 years 1 month
cwinters/summa_blog
Apr 2012 - Jan 2014
Contributions:21 commits in 1 year 9 months
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