Christian Witchger
Principal Software Engineer at Lyric - Clarity in motion.
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristian Witchger is a Principal Software Engineer and people-first technology leader with eight years of experience building high-impact big data and business automation systems across healthcare, navigation, and telecom. He combines hands-on JVM expertise and architecture fluency with a track record of driving major platform overhauls—most notably a 94% code reduction and 4.4x latency improvement for a revenue-critical authorization service at Optum that also boosted accuracy and NPS dramatically. Christian grows and mentors teams, having scaled a global org from 7 to 30+ engineers and led L&D programs that institutionalized learning time for thousands of employees. He thrives in production-centric roles, participating in code and architecture reviews, debugging live-site issues, and delivering within tight enrollment timelines. A former touring musician and co-founder of a social music app, he brings creativity and user empathy to technically complex problems.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Github Skills (4)
planning4
kie-server4
kie2
windows1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
cwitchger/vehicle-routing
Mar 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:12 commits, 6 PRs, 7 pushes in 3 days
distancesintegration-serverkiewindowsroad
cwitchger/advanced-process-development-labs
Jan 2018 - Jan 2018
Contributions:4 pushes, 5 branches in 1 day
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