Christopher Garlock
Software Engineer at Cboe Global Markets
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Garlock is a software engineer with 11 years of industry experience and a B.S. in Computer Science from Missouri S&T, currently building production systems at Cboe Global Markets. He brings deep expertise in maintaining and evolving large C++ codebases of long-running Linux processes, combined with practical full-stack skills in Python, JavaScript, Ruby on Rails, Django, SQL, and containerized workflows. At Cerner he advanced from intern to associate senior engineer, demonstrating steady ownership of complex, mission-critical systems, and his open-source contributions include improving native build and linking behavior for the nar-maven-plugin to better support transitive shared-object dependencies and AIX shared archives. Quick to learn new languages and tools, he pairs low-level systems thinking with pragmatic test-driven development and CI automation experience (Jenkins, SVN/git, Docker). Based in Kansas City, he favors solving hard integration and build problems that others tend to avoid.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Missouri-Rolla
Github Skills (8)
maven10
javas10
build-automation10
java10
cprogramming-language9
c-language9
aix8
testing7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
maven-nar/nar-maven-plugin
Nov 2017 - Apr 2018
Native ARchive plugin for Maven
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 3 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily focused on enhancing the Nar Maven Plugin, specifically related to native archive builds. They improved the handling of dependencies, enabling the correct linking of transitive shared object dependencies when direct dependencies are enforced. Furthermore, they addressed static library build issues and introduced a feature allowing shared objects on AIX to be added to shared archives. Additional changes included refactoring and adding tests related to test scope dependencies.
maven-pluginjavamavenarchive
garlockchristopher/nar-maven-plugin
Nov 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 9 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
maven-pluginjavamavenarchive
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