Christopher Davis
Senior Principal Software Engineer at PMG
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolChristopher Davis is a Senior Principal Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building reliable, data-driven systems for the digital marketing and agency space. He specializes in handling terabyte-scale data pipelines, integrating diverse external APIs, and operationalizing solutions ranging from single Python scripts to distributed job-queue systems on AWS. At PMG he drives technical direction for the Alli platform—authoring governance, platform services, an event-driven architecture, and a Module Federation/Single SPA UI framework—while mentoring engineers and formalizing system design reviews. A former SEO practitioner, he pairs deep domain knowledge with engineering judgment to model business problems into practical, auditable solutions. Christopher is also an active open-source contributor to mature projects like Doctrine and NelmioApiDocBundle, improving migrations, DBAL behavior, and OpenAPI polymorphism support.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
M.M., Guitar Performance, M.M., Guitar Performance at Austin Peay State UniversityB.M., Music Business, Guitar Performance, B.M., Music Business, Guitar Performance at Drake University
English
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Github Skills (34)
database-migrations10
postgresql10
testing10
doctrine10
databases10
swagger10
bundle10
phpunit10
doctrine-dbal10
php10
api10
symfony10
database-schema10
symfony-ux10
database-migration10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
doctrine/migrations
Apr 2015 - Jul 2020
Doctrine Database Migrations Library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:50 commits, 23 PRs, 114 comments in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily focused on enhancing the Doctrine Migrations library. Their contributions included implementing a schema provider and integrating it into the diff command. They introduced and tested end-to-end functionality for the diff command and worked on configuration usage and the handling of database connections. Furthermore, they added event dispatching capabilities and introduced listeners for automatic commit operations.
mysqlphpdatabase-migrationsdatabasemigrations
nelmio/NelmioApiDocBundle
Feb 2021 - Jun 2022
Generates documentation for your REST API from annotations
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 reviews, 21 commits, 8 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily contributed to the implementation of features within the NelmioApiDocBundle, focusing on supporting OpenAPI polymorphism. Their work included introducing traits and modifying existing classes to handle discriminator maps and polymorphic schemas. They added tests to validate these changes. The user also addressed various code style issues and refined constraints related to length, choice, and range annotations.
apiannotationsbundlephpsymfony-bundle
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