Christian Monsanto
Workplace Technician at Warner Bros. Discovery
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristian Monsanto is a seasoned IT professional with 14 years of hands-on experience supporting enterprise desktops, laptops, printers and applications across major firms including Warner Bros. Discovery and NTT DATA Services. Certified in A+ and ITIL Foundations and holding a CyberSecurity MicroMasters from RIT, he blends practical break/fix and warranty repair expertise with a strong foundation in cybersecurity principles. His open-source contributions reveal a developer’s curiosity—ranging from UI theming for Emacs’ popular Solarized theme to backend and data work on widely used Pokémon simulators and contributions to the Babel compiler—underscoring both front-end sensibility and systems-level coding chops. Based in New York, he excels at translating complex technical data into reliable user-facing services and brings a rare mix of desktop support rigor and software development experience to operational technology teams.
14 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Github Skills (18)
javascript10
s610
data-management10
emacs-lisp10
mechanics10
compiler-compiler10
emacs10
babel-core10
compiler10
babeljs10
colors9
astm9
color-scheme9
colours9
flowtype8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
smogon/damage-calc
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
Pokemon games damage calculator
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review, 20 commits, 5 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Christian primarily contributed to the damage calculator's functionality by updating and maintaining the datasets used for calculations across multiple game generations. Their work involved modifying JavaScript files containing sets of moves and Pokemon data, reflecting changes and updates to the game's mechanics and available movesets. This included modifications to the data for Generation 1, Generation 2, Generation 4, Generation 5, Generation 7, and Generation 9.
calculatorjavascriptdamagegames
smogon/pokemon-showdown
Dec 2012 - Jan 2023
Pokémon battle simulator.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:113 reviews, 25 commits, 47 PRs in 10 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Christian's contributions primarily focused on data and format updates within the Pokémon Showdown simulator. They added and fixed data related to Pokémon moves, abilities, and formats, including support for generation 3, and VGC2023 regulation E. They also implemented and updated game rules and features related to the game. These changes required a deep understanding of the game's mechanics and the associated data structures.
mongamebattlesimulationsimulator
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