Christopher Baines
Software Engineer at Adroit Trading Technologies
Broomfield, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Baines is a pragmatic software engineer with 15 years of experience building backend‑focused applications and data-driven systems, currently contributing at Adroit Trading Technologies from Broomfield, Colorado. He blends strong quantitative training—BA degrees in Mathematics and Economics and an MS in Mathematics—with hands-on full‑stack work in C#, Blazor, SQL, and backend refactoring. His background includes pricing analytics and internal tooling for National Indemnity, where he paired domain expertise in commercial liability with developer responsibilities for a public-facing analytics app. Christopher has contributed to the notable alphagov/whitehall project, implementing model and migration changes that improved content publishing and API interactions—showing an aptitude for careful data model evolution in production systems. Colleagues know him for translating complex business requirements into reliable, maintainable code and for bridging analytics and engineering perspectives.
15 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Mathematics, Master of Science - MS, Mathematics at University of Nebraska at OmahaBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Mathematics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Mathematics at University of Colorado Boulder
Github Skills (10)
database-migrations10
ruby-rails10
database-migration10
rails10
postgresql10
backend10
back-end-development10
ruby10
apidoc9
api9
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
alphagov/whitehall
Jul 2016 - Sep 2020
Publishes government content on GOV.UK
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:16 reviews, 592 commits, 433 PRs in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily contributed to backend development within the Whitehall repository, focusing on database migrations and updating models. Their work involved unpublishing content items and adding features related to associating user needs with content. The user also made changes to the application's data model to reflect shifts in the underlying data storage mechanisms. These changes included refactoring models for database interactions and adjustments to API interaction logic.
govgovuk-publishing-frontendgovukgovernmentcontainer
alphagov/gnu-guix
Nov 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:53 commits, 11 pushes, 3 branches in 6 months
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