Christopher Canfield is a software engineer with 12 years of experience building scalable web applications and educational technology, currently at Interboro Labs in New York and a course facilitator at Boston University. He has a strong academic background with an M.S. and certificate in Computer Science from Boston University and additional coursework at Harvard, and has a track record of turning research-driven ideas into production systems—most notably designing Knowla, a web app used in large-scale educational experiments presented at Learning@Scale. Christopher blends startup grit (founder of Divergent Thoughts Games) with enterprise experience from State Street, and is comfortable across full-stack development and high-concurrency systems. He frequently bridges academia and industry, helping operationalize learning research while teaching the next generation of developers. An analytical problem-solver with a political science BA foundation, he brings both technical depth and a systems-level perspective to product and curriculum work.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Political Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Political Science at Providence College
Computer Science, 3.7, Computer Science, 3.7 at Harvard University
Certificate in Computer Science, 3.86, Certificate in Computer Science, 3.86 at Boston University
Contributions:1160 commits, 39 PRs, 517 pushes in 8 years 10 months
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Christopher Canfield - Software Engineer at Boston University