Christopher Denny
Software Engineer at Datadog
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Denny is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building backend systems and security-focused tooling, currently at Datadog in New York. He has delivered production-grade services at Databricks and Rubrik and interned on impactful systems teams at Facebook and Square. His open-source work includes substantive contributions to Square’s certigo utility, extending support for multiple certificate formats and improving CLI usability and maintainability. Comfortable across distributed systems, security infrastructure, and developer tooling, he brings a pragmatic focus on refactoring and readable code. A UT Austin computer science graduate, he also has experience shaping public-facing technical communications as a media director for a nonprofit alumni association. Colleagues describe him as an engineer who pairs deep technical chops with a knack for simplifying complex operational workflows.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at The University of Texas at AustinWilliam P. Clements High School
Github Skills (7)
certificate10
go10
cli10
pkcs9
x5099
crypto8
pem8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
square/certigo
May 2016 - Jul 2016
A utility to examine and validate certificates in a variety of formats
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:53 commits, 21 PRs, 25 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily contributed to the development of the `certigo` utility. They added support for parsing and displaying certificate information from different formats, including PEM, PKCS12, and DER files, as well as JCEKS keystores. Their work involved modifying the main application logic to accommodate these formats, implementing command-line argument parsing using `kingpin`, and enhancing the output with color-coded date information. The user also refactored code to improve readability and maintainability.
signingcertificate-generationjceksvalidatecli
christodenny/lastwin
Sep 2017 - May 2022
Find out the last time your football team won :')
Contributions:1 review, 21 PRs, 29 pushes in 4 years 8 months
pythonfootball
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