Christian Warden
Founder And Developer at October Swimmer
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolChristian Warden is a founder and developer with 15+ years building enterprise applications and data platforms, currently focusing on Salesforce development through his firm October Swimmer. A long-time Linux advocate and former sysadmin since 1997, he blends deep infrastructure experience with practical application engineering—everything from high-availability web clusters and Puppet automation to offline-first mobile apps. He has led teams and initiatives that integrated marketing, CRM, and BI systems using tools like Pentaho, Palo, and custom ETL, and contributed to notable open-source projects including the Force.com CLI and ThinkUp. Christian pairs disciplined engineering practices—modular, testable code and CI—with an economist’s perspective, having completed a BA in Economics, and pursues interests in data science and functional programming. An understated strength is his cross-domain fluency: he can architect deployment pipelines one day and improve compiler data handling (Soufflé) the next.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Economics, Economics at San José State UniversityElectrical Engineering Computer Science, Electrical Engineering Computer Science at Loyola Marymount University
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Github Skills (45)
salesforce-api10
debugging10
javascript10
datalog10
c-language10
sqlite10
jquery10
testing10
command-line-interface10
metadata10
soap10
soql10
google-chrome10
go10
apex10
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
ForceCLI/force
Nov 2013 - Jan 2023
A command-line interface to force.com
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:41 releases, 14 reviews, 340 commits in 9 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Christian's contributions focused on enhancing the functionality of a command-line interface for force.com. They implemented features for exporting sharing rules, improving metadata polling messages, fixing zip file creation on Windows, adding log and trace commands, and updating test and deploy processes. Their work included changes across multiple files, indicating a broad involvement in the project's core functionality, as well as adding new features.
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developerforce/Force.com-JavaScript-REST-Toolkit
Nov 2012 - Apr 2014
ForceTK - a minimal Force.com REST API for JavaScript apps
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 1 comment in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Christian primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the ForceTK project, focusing on enhancing the proxy functionality. Their work included adding support for SOAP API requests by passing the SOAPAction header, expanding the proxy's compatibility with cloudforce.com instances, and improving compatibility with RemoteTK by adding noop functions and returning additional attributes with describe and query responses. They also worked on improving field-type support in create calls and including picklist values in the describe result.
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