Christian Baum
Senior Software Engineer at Progressive Leasing
Phoenix, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristian Baum is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building full-stack solutions for high-volume consumer businesses, currently shaping lease-to-own platforms at Progressive Leasing and previously supporting global consumer health brands. He has led major rewrites and end-to-end development efforts that serve millions of customers, demonstrating strong skills across data, backend, and frontend systems. A lifelong technologist who started coding as a child, Christian combines an engineer’s rigor with a creative mindset—he values the human impact of software as much as technical excellence. Based in Phoenix, he pairs hands-on delivery with teamwork and mentorship, thriving in collaborative, supportive communities. Outside of work he balances code with long-distance running, improvisational theater, and writing, pursuits that sharpen resilience, creativity, and communication.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.52, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.52 at Park UniversityAssociate’s Degree, 3.22, Associate’s Degree, 3.22 at Spokane Falls Community College
Github Skills (29)
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kotlin6
developer-tools5
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
xianbaum/StrayKitty
Mar 2016 - Jan 2022
A cat toy
Contributions:57 commits, 1 PR, 43 pushes in 5 years 11 months
rusttoy
xianbaum/red-x
Oct 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:1 release, 28 commits, 27 pushes in 3 months
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