Christopher Decarolis is a software engineer with a decade of experience building backend systems and data orchestration tooling, currently at Indent in San Francisco after a multi-year stint at Dagster Labs. He contributed to Dagster, a prominent open-source orchestration platform, improving core functionality, resource handling, and sensor/asset checks—work that reflects a focus on reliable production data pipelines. His background blends industry internships at Airbnb, Facebook, and Microsoft with research on deterministic databases and differential privacy (publications at SIGMOD and ICML). Comfortable moving between research and production, he brings rigor from academic publications and practical impact in open-source engineering.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science and Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science and Mathematics at University of Maryland
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Manalapan High School, Science and Engineering Program
An orchestration platform for the development, production, and observation of data assets.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:7 releases, 1925 reviews, 894 commits in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily focused on improving the core functionality and maintainability of the Dagster platform. Their contributions include adding documentation for internal APIs, fixing a variety of bugs including those related to resource handling, and refactoring op return checking code. The user also added the ability to set asset check selection in run requests for sensors and introduced additional checks to existing functionality.
Contributions:1 review, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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