Christian Long
Consulting Engineer at Cisco
United States
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Top SchoolChristian Long is a consulting engineer with 13 years of experience designing and building infrastructure and services that automate complex business processes. He specializes in Python-backed systems, test automation, and single-page web applications—highlighted by a rules engine that generates shipment warning labels exposed as a web service and UI, complete with unit, regression, and Selenium test suites. At Cisco and previously Information Advantage he turned domain requirements into reliable production tooling, from warehouse management to order-monitoring visualizations. He also contributes to open-source QA tooling, improving flake8's cross-platform tests and robustness around parallel jobs. Outside of work he cultivates community as organizer of the Fox Valley Python User Group and as a member of the PyCon program committee, blending hands-on engineering with community leadership.
13 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, French, Bachelor's degree, French at Haverford College
English, French
Github Skills (9)
static-code-analysis10
flake10
pytest10
python10
testing10
linter9
styles9
styleguidist9
windows8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
PyCQA/flake8
Feb 2015 - Mar 2015
flake8 is a python tool that glues together pycodestyle, pyflakes, mccabe, and third-party plugins to check the style and quality of some python code.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:9 commits in 21 days
Contributions summary:Christian's contributions primarily focus on improving the testing infrastructure and ensuring the quality of the `flake8` tool. They fixed test failures on Windows platforms, addressing issues related to the `--jobs` argument and path separators. Furthermore, they added new tests and functionality to handle warnings related to the `--jobs` option, including implementing a verbose flag. The user also refactored test code for better maintainability and platform compatibility.
linterpythonstylelintpycodestylemccabe
christianmlong/blue-penguin
Mar 2015 - Mar 2024
Contributions:14 pushes in 9 years 2 months
pelicancsspelican-theme
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