Christopher Dowin
Vice President Of Software Engineering at Pole Star Defense
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Dowin is a results-driven engineering leader with 15+ years of experience modernizing legacy systems into cloud-native, revenue-generating platforms while maintaining compliance in highly regulated environments. He has a track record of building and scaling engineering organizations from the ground up, turning $300K pilots into multimillion-dollar ARR and delivering multimillion-dollar contracts ahead of schedule and under budget. Known for crisis-tested execution, he led an emergency AIS tracking deployment in four days during the Francis Scott Key Bridge incident and architected modular microservice platforms that enabled broad multi-environment deployment. His blend of hands-on architecture, IaC automation, and customer-aligned product thinking accelerates time-to-market and reduces operational cost. Based in the New York City area, he pairs mission-focused technical depth in GEOINT and maritime intelligence with a knack for turning fragmented technology footprints into unified, scalable developer experiences.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Florida Institute of TechnologyAssociate of Arts - AA, Associate of Arts - AA at Eastern Florida State College
Github Skills (67)
imagery10
satellite10
satellite-imagery10
image-processing9
spatial8
build-system7
merge7
geotools7
geospatial7
flip6
database6
oms6
restful6
delta5
wms-service5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Maxar-Corp/omar-merge-to-master
May 2017 - Jan 2019
A script to perform git operations on multiple OSSIMLABS repos
Contributions:1 release, 9 pushes, 1 tag in 1 year 8 months
deltalibgit2jqmergegit-operations
ossimlabs/omar-docs
Jun 2017 - Aug 2019
The documentation service for OMAR; this repository contains scripts that probe various repositories for documentation.
Contributions:2 releases, 2 PRs, 15 pushes in 2 years 1 month
repositoriesomarprobe
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