Summary
Christian Shadd is a software engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building mission-critical applications for defense and research organizations, currently serving as a contractor for a Department of the Navy agency. He has deep practical experience in flight mission planning and platform-specific tooling, delivering robust C#, Java, and TypeScript systems containerized with Docker and orchestrated via Kubernetes. Christian pairs strong CI/CD and test-driven practices (Jenkins, SonarQube, Jest, Cypress, JUnit) with a background in full-stack web development dating to his early freelance and ACM projects. His work has spanned AI-enabled robotics research with NASA/USAF sponsors and production-grade DoD software, showing comfort moving between prototyping and operationalized systems. Based in Los Angeles and a CSUN computer science graduate, he is motivated by national defense use cases and brings a pragmatic, standards-driven approach to complex, safety-critical domains.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.4, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.4 at California State University, Northridge
English