Christian V
Production Engineer at Facebook
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristian V is a Production Engineer based in San Jose with a decade of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure and distributed systems. He blends deep Linux, AWS, and Python expertise with hands-on SRE and production engineering from roles at Facebook and earlier leadership of production engineering at Tubular Labs. Christian has led migrations to Kubernetes, rolled out Bazel across organizations, and architected microservices and infra-as-code with Terraform and SaltStack to improve reliability and CI/CD. He also has full-stack and UI roots—contributing TypeScript typings and documentation to Facebook’s popular Recoil project—which reflects a rare mix of frontend nuance and backend operability. His background includes shipping mobile and API platforms at startups and scaling systems at larger firms, showing comfort across the lifecycle from prototype to production. Fluent in both engineering and product considerations, he combines pragmatic tooling choices with a focus on developer experience and observability.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Supply Chain Management, MSc, Supply Chain Management at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus UniversityBA, Sinology, BA, Sinology at Leiden UniversityBSc, Business Administration, BSc, Business Administration at Erasmus University Rotterdam
English, Dutch, Chinese, French
Github Skills (8)
state-management10
typescript10
typescripts10
recoiljs10
typescript-types10
react9
docusaurus9
documentation8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
facebookexperimental/Recoil
May 2020 - Jul 2021
Recoil is an experimental state management library for React apps. It provides several capabilities that are difficult to achieve with React alone, while being compatible with the newest features of React.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 53 commits, 36 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Christian primarily contributed to the documentation and TypeScript typing for the Recoil project, specifically focusing on the documentation site setup using Docusaurus. They also added and refined TypeScript types for core Recoil features, including snapshots, atom effects, and atom families. Their work improved the project's developer experience by enhancing type safety and providing more robust documentation.
react-appsreactstate-managementreact-hooksredux
csantos42/Recoil
Jun 2020 - Apr 2022
Recoil is an experimental state management library for React apps. It provides several capabilities that are difficult to achieve with React alone, while being compatible with the newest features of React.
Contributions:49 pushes, 29 branches in 1 year 10 months
react-appsreactstate-managementreact-hooksredux
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