Christine Thornton
Senior Software Engineer at Uber
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolChristine Thornton is a Senior Software Engineer in San Francisco with 15 years of full-stack experience building and leading delivery of complex web and backend systems. She has moved systems from monolith to microservices, led scheduling and team-management initiatives at Square, and now contributes at scale to Uber’s platforms. Skilled across Java, Kotlin, Ruby/Rails, Ember.js, and modern API patterns (OAuth2, JWT), she blends hands-on coding with technical leadership and onboarding acquired teams. Early work included payment integrations, Android apps, and rigorous test-driven API services using RabbitMQ and Redis, reflecting a strong operational sensibility. Christine maintains a developer-facing blog that highlights her practical engineering insights and continuous-learning mindset. She’s known for pragmatically bridging product needs and engineering constraints to deliver reliable, maintainable systems.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Arizona State UniversityBarrett the Honors College
Github Skills (69)
cms10
web-application10
python10
automation10
home-assistant10
javascript10
mqtt10
home-automation10
ghost10
jamstack10
iot10
nodejs10
audience10
privacy10
journalism10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
onelogin/scep-gem
Feb 2015 - Jun 2015
SCEP implementation in Ruby in a rubygem format
Contributions:39 commits, 7 PRs, 19 pushes in 4 months
sceprubygemsrubyrubygem
cthornton/southwest-checkin
May 2017 - Nov 2020
Automatically checks in passengers for their Southwest Flight
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 6 months
flightchecks
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