Christopher Desch
Software Engineer at Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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SeniorChristopher Desch is a software engineer and architect leading technical R&D at the New York Innovation Center, focused on payments innovation, Distributed Ledger Technology, and resilient distributed systems. With over a decade at the Federal Reserve, he built Resilience Operational Frameworks and IT systems risk standards while advancing research in payment systems, CBDCs, and DLT. He pairs policy-grade, auditable system design with hands-on engineering—contributing backend and DevOps fixes to notable open-source tooling like Hardhat and improving QA for database utilities. Based in the New York metro area, he bridges central banking research with practical implementation, partnering with BISIH on cutting-edge crypto and CBDC work. Less obvious: he blends protocol-level thinking with pragmatic developer tooling improvements, ensuring research prototypes can smoothly transition to production-grade deployments.
11 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (20)
unit-testing10
javascript10
web-proxy10
typescript10
proxy10
database-testing10
java10
proxy-pac10
http-proxy10
javas10
junit10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
testing9
robolectric9
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
NomicFoundation/hardhat
Mar 2021 - May 2021
Hardhat is a development environment to compile, deploy, test, and debug your Ethereum software.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 11 commits, 1 PR in 2 months
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily focused on improving the project's download functionality, specifically implementing proxy support for downloading compiler lists. They added and tested proxy configurations using environment variables for both HTTP and HTTPS. Additionally, the user refactored the code by removing an unused function and fixed TypeScript linting errors.
stack-tracesethereumhardhatjavascriptevm
chennaione/sugar
Mar 2015 - Apr 2015
Insanely easy way to work with Android Database.
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 13 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily contributed to the project by writing and modifying test cases. They added new tests for helper methods (`first` and `last`) related to database record retrieval, specifically focusing on scenarios involving deleted records and edge cases. They also refactored and fixed existing test cases to ensure their correctness. The user's work demonstrates a focus on ensuring the quality and reliability of database interaction methods.
android-databaseandroiddatabaseorm-frameworkjava
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