Christopher Beam
Lead Software Engineer at Discovery Education
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolChristopher Beam is a lead software engineer in Pittsburgh with 11 years of experience building scalable web and backend systems across edtech, telecom, healthcare, and fintech. He brings deep full-stack expertise (React, Web Components, Ember) and strong systems foundations in Python, Java, data structures, networking, and cybersecurity, informed by years of competitive programming. After a progression through startups and acquisitions—Wombat to Proofpoint, DreamBox to Discovery Education—he now leads engineering efforts delivering learning products at scale. Christopher pairs an MS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech with dual bachelor’s degrees in CS and Mathematics, and he pursues applied AI interests in computer vision, neural nets, and robotics beyond his day-to-day responsibilities. An engineer who bridges research-quality technical depth with product delivery, he’s equally comfortable optimizing algorithms as mentoring teams through complex integrations.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Charter School of WilmingtonMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science - BS Computer and Information Science (Computer Science Concentration), Bachelor of Science - BS Computer and Information Science (Computer Science Concentration) at Messiah University
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (175)
low-level10
drag10
floating10
sortable10
html-webpack-plugin10
javascript10
modularity10
enums10
dependency-free10
tooltips10
popover10
json10
javascript-tools10
typescript10
data-exchange10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
nerdkid93/hospitalrun-frontend
Feb 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 62 pushes, 15 branches in 1 month
ember-addonhospitalrunemberjsemberfront-end
nerdkid93/nerdkid93.github.io
Apr 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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