Christopher Andre
Senior Solutions Engineer at Funky Functor
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolChristopher Andre is a senior solutions engineer and seasoned software problem solver with nine years of experience building and tuning distributed, reactive systems across finance, advertising, and entertainment. He combines deep expertise in Scala/Akka, JVM performance and APM (Dynatrace), and reactive microservices with hands-on experience in Java/J2EE, Android/iOS, and BI tooling from his early JasperSoft days. Christopher has repeatedly bridged pre-sales, enablement, and engineering roles—moving from customer-facing performance architect at Dynatrace to hands-on Scala development at Morgan Stanley, Twitter, and Caesars. He has led teams and founded a consultancy focused on performance, and has built operational products like an Akka-based UAV fleet manager, showing a penchant for pragmatic, production-ready systems. Based in Montreal, he favors learning-by-doing and brings a rare mix of performance troubleshooting, developer enablement, and full-stack engineering to complex, high-throughput environments. Notably, his background spans both developer tooling and customer enablement, enabling him to translate low-level JVM diagnostics into business-facing reliability improvements.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
DEUG MIAS Mathematics and Computer Science, DEUG MIAS Mathematics and Computer Science at Université de la RéunionBachelor Information Technologies & Computer Science, Bachelor Information Technologies & Computer Science at Millikin UniversityFrench Engineering degree Software conception realisation and integration, French Engineering degree Software conception realisation and integration at Ecole Supérieure de Génie Informatique - ESGI
French, English, German, Japanese, creoles and pidgins, french-based
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Github Skills (32)
asynchronous10
concurrent-programming10
continuation10
concurrent10
async10
zio10
raii10
scala10
effects10
composable10
executor10
functional-programming10
stm10
concurrency10
nodejs7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
FunkyFunctor-Chris/javaagent_instrumentation
Jan 2019 - May 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
FunkyFunctor-Chris/HarResourceExtractor
May 2023 - Sep 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 4 months
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