Christopher Eldridge
Software Engineering Manager at Paychex
City of Rochester, New York, United States
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Top SchoolChristopher Eldridge is a software engineering manager with 11 years of experience leading backend engineering teams and delivery at Paychex, where he progressed from co-op developer to enterprise architect and now manages engineering for customer-facing insurance services. He specializes in data movement, integrations, reporting, and customizing third-party applications, with deep hands-on experience in Java, Oracle E-Business Suite, web services, PL/SQL, and scripting across Linux/Unix environments. Christopher combines technical depth with people leadership, coaching teams to solve complex integration challenges while maintaining production reliability. He has repeatedly bridged product and infrastructure needs—translating business requirements into scalable, auditable solutions for payroll, HR, and sales systems. Based in Rochester, NY, he brings institutional knowledge of enterprise systems and a pragmatic approach to modernizing legacy workflows. Colleagues describe him as a results-oriented leader who pairs broad platform knowledge with a track record of shipping measurable improvements.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree Software Engineering at Rochester Institute of TechnologyAssociate's degree Computer Science, Associate's degree Computer Science at Monroe Community College
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Github Skills (70)
fallback10
spring9
java9
spring-boot9
fault-tolerance8
spring-security8
wifi8
timeout8
fault8
openfeign8
bulkhead8
json-api7
jsinterop7
log4j6
eclipselink6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
CF711/facebookProject
Mar 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:17 commits, 11 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
cssjavascriptengineeringweb-engineering
Crash-Test-Buddies/DataCollector
Jun 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:1 release, 4 PRs, 10 pushes in 27 days
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