Christopher Currie
Software Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolChristopher Currie is a seasoned software development engineer and technical leader with 22 years of experience building multi-platform applications and scalable web services, currently at AWS in Seattle. He has deep domain expertise in telecommunications, service-oriented architecture, and financial applications, and has led engineering and architecture teams from startups to large enterprises. A practical polyglot, he’s contributed to major open-source projects like Dropwizard and Jackson—improving RESTful service tooling and JVM data binding—and has helped harden JDBI’s SQL-object API. His work blends hands-on backend engineering with a focus on code quality, testing, and maintainability, evidenced by fixes that improve test stability and error messaging. Christopher pairs advanced degrees from William & Mary and the University of Washington with a career rhythm of shipping pragmatic, production-ready systems. Colleagues rely on him for architectural judgment that balances long-term maintainability with immediate shipping needs.
22 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at The College of William and MaryMS, Computer Science and Engineering, MS, Computer Science and Engineering at University of Washington
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Github Skills (37)
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
FasterXML/jackson-module-scala
Jul 2011 - Nov 2016
Add-on module for Jackson (https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson) to support Scala-specific datatypes
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:487 commits, 7 PRs, 86 pushes in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Christopher focused on implementing and improving Scala-specific data type support for the Jackson library's deserialization and serialization processes. Their contributions included adding support for various Scala collections and dealing with annotations for efficient data handling, with a significant emphasis on the flexibility and modularity of the library. The primary focus was on enhancing serialization for specific Scala data types and ensuring compatibility with various Scala collections, as highlighted by the Seq, Iterable, Option, and other collection type features.
fasterxmlobjectmappercborscaladatatypes
jdbi/jdbi
Jul 2011 - Jul 2015
The Jdbi library provides convenient, idiomatic access to relational databases in Java and other JVM technologies such as Kotlin, Clojure or Scala.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 3 PRs, 13 comments in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and robustness of the JDBI library. Their contributions included adding features such as unbounded wildcards to annotation values and implementing handlers for equals, toString, and hashCode methods within the SQL object framework. Additionally, the user improved error messaging for API misuse and introduced new features like the ContainerValueResult annotation while also addressing and fixing regressions. These changes indicate a focus on improving the core features and API of the library.
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