Christopher Byrd
Software Engineer at Farallon Geographics
Sacramento, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Byrd is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building performant, full-stack systems and mentoring teams across startups and enterprise environments. Based in Sacramento, he has driven measurable improvements—such as a 30% reduction in load times via Webpack optimization and a 40% boost in graph data performance through a custom caching layer—while contributing backend work to notable open-source projects like the geospatial Arches platform. He excels at decomposing complex problems into auditable, well-documented solutions and thrives in collaborative communities, having facilitated open-source forums and guided feature roadmaps. A former ESL instructor and nonprofit technologist, he brings strong communication skills and a user-centered perspective to engineering challenges. Beyond day job work he pursues personal projects and open-source contributions that reflect a genuine enjoyment of creating structured, logical systems from scratch.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Psychology, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Psychology at University of Tennessee at Martin
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (13)
python10
django10
postgresql9
database-design8
testing7
json6
css6
aggregate-functions6
rmagick6
database-migration6
binomial-coefficient6
django-migrations6
decimal6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
archesproject/arches
Jul 2020 - Jan 2023
Arches is a web platform for creating, managing, & visualizing geospatial data. Arches was inspired by the needs of the Cultural Heritage community, particularly the widespread need of organizations to build & manage cultural heritage inventories
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 555 reviews, 1776 commits in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Christopher's contributions centered around adding and modifying backend functionality, mainly within the Python/Django framework. They addressed bug fixes, made performance improvements, and worked on data modeling and schema changes related to graph publications. In addition, the user has integrated with a database. They were also involved in unit testing.
pythondjangocultural-heritageweb-apparcheology
chrabyrd/arches
Jul 2020 - Nov 2020
Arches is a web platform for creating, managing, & visualizing geospatial data. Arches was inspired by the needs of the Cultural Heritage community, particularly the widespread need of organizations to build & manage cultural heritage inventories
Contributions:134 pushes, 20 branches in 3 months
web-platformgeospatialcultural-heritageheritagecultural
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