Christian Maher
Senior Software Engineer at Paxos
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristian Maher is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building scalable front-end and back-end systems, currently architecting blockchain settlement services at Paxos. He started programming at age 10 and blends a deep appreciation for elegant code with practical experience modernizing legacy platforms into modular, microservice-driven architectures. Comfortable across JavaScript, Java/Scala, and cloud/serverless patterns, he focuses on data processing, service division/deployment, and improving developer productivity. Christian has a track record of driving organizational change—designing auth and gateway services, cleaning up unscalable patterns, and documenting standards to speed team delivery. He mentors engineers and enjoys hands-on hardware tinkering with microcontrollers when projects demand it, reflecting a pragmatic maker’s mindset alongside system-level thinking. Based in New York, he pairs academic roots in CS and mathematics with a long history of delivering production systems for finance and enterprise software.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science, Mathematics, Japanese (minor), B.S., Computer Science, Mathematics, Japanese (minor) at Penn State University
Github Skills (122)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
cmaher/cmaher.github.io
Mar 2015 - Jun 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
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cmaher/Shelley
Apr 2020 - Jun 2020
Contributions:49 commits, 6 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
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