Summary
Christopher Bielak is a Senior Software Engineer and Technical Architect with 11 years of experience designing cloud-native microservices and modern Java-based systems, currently advising Centene through Brillio and recently joined Intelliswift. He champions migration off legacy Java 8 toward newer LTS releases (currently on Java 11 and tracking features through Java 14) and coaches junior architects on scalable service design and cloud architecture. His background spans financial trading platforms and crypto APIs—contributions at JP Morgan, Knight Capital, Bank of America, and startups give him a strong mix of low-latency, back-end, and GUI experience. Outside work he leads a small open-source dev team building tooling for the game CK2, demonstrating hands-on leadership and an appetite for niche languages and community-driven projects. Based in New Jersey, he combines pragmatic enterprise delivery with a developer-evangelist mindset that pushes teams toward safer, modern platform choices.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Rutgers University