Christopher Bilger is a Staff Software Engineer with nine years of experience building full-stack enterprise applications and leading engineering efforts at Talkiatry. He blends hands-on development, testing, and deployment expertise with a background in education and mentorship, shaping teams as well as code. Prior roles at Lockheed Martin sharpened his discipline for robust systems and documentation-driven development. An active FOSS advocate, he contributes to projects like mlrose, improving algorithm implementations and code quality to align with best practices. He holds a Master of Computer Science from Arizona State and a BS in Computer Science from Temple University, pairing formal training with practical delivery. Based in Greater Philadelphia, he’s a student-at-heart who brings curiosity and an educator’s touch to complex engineering problems.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Temple University
Master of Computer Science - MCS, Master of Computer Science - MCS at Arizona State University
Associate of Science - AS, Mathematics, Associate of Science - AS, Mathematics at Bucks County Community College
Python package for implementing a number of Machine Learning, Randomized Optimization and SEarch algorithms.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:1 review, 57 commits, 13 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily contributed to the codebase by refactoring and formatting existing files to adhere to PEP8 guidelines. They fixed issues related to code style, whitespace, and inconsistent formatting. The commits demonstrate improvements in code quality and standardization across multiple files, including core modules and test files. Additionally, the user made changes to the algorithms and fitness functions to ensure better code quality.
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
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Christopher Bilger - Staff Software Engineer at Talkiatry