Christopher Abastar
Senior Software Engineer at Glimpse
Zamboanga del Sur, Philippines
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Top SchoolChristopher Abastar is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience designing and operating high-performance, scalable backend systems for gaming, telecom, and security firms. He currently leads engineering at Glimpse, focusing on trend discovery, and previously architected the game server and microservices for Valiant Force using Python, Flask, Postgres, Redis, Celery and FreeBSD. Christopher has a strong operational mindset—tweaking kernels, optimizing Postgres (JSONB, GIN, autovacuum) and deploying on AWS to maintain high availability and low-latency services. His background spans threat classification, high-throughput transactional systems for TransferTo, and real-time sync engines with Django, highlighting both security and data-consistency expertise. He combines low-level systems work (networking, FreeBSD tuning, connection pooling) with pragmatic service design and automation (Ansible, Ansible-driven FreeBSD builds, HAProxy/Nginx). Based in Zamboanga del Sur, Philippines, he pairs deep technical breadth with a knack for turning operational constraints into scalable architectures.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Ateneo de Zamboanga University
English, Tagalog, Spanish
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Github Skills (152)
google-trends10
async9
webargs9
api9
documented9
job-queue9
limiting9
engine-io9
redis9
marshmallow9
rq9
periodic9
task-queue9
serverless-plugin8
corona8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
cmabastar/audit-trigger
Jul 2019 - Aug 2020
Simple, easily customised trigger-based auditing for PostgreSQL (Postgres). See also pgaudit.
Contributions:5 commits, 5 pushes in 1 year 1 month
audittriggercustomisedpgauditpostgres
cmabastar/astro_user
Apr 2023 - Feb 2024
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 10 months
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