Christopher Gillis
VP Of Software Engineering at SafetyAmp
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
Summary
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SeniorChristopher Gillis is a seasoned software engineering leader with 12 years of experience and nine years focused on crafting object-oriented architecture and scaling complex systems. As VP of Software Engineering at SafetyAmp, he leads teams building cloud-based EHS safety and quality management software while maintaining hands-on expertise in PHP (Laravel, Symfony), Go, RESTful APIs, and MySQL sharding. He combines pragmatic DevOps practice—Ansible, Docker, monitoring, automation—with strong coaching and Agile leadership to deliver reliable, scalable services. Christopher contributes to open-source at the database-clustering level, including work on Vitess that improved vindex sharding and data migration logic. Based in Charlottesville, he balances leadership and coding with electronics hobbyist projects, reflecting a blend of systems-level thinking and practical curiosity.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (14)
databases10
vitess10
go10
database10
mysql9
sha9
database-design8
data-structure7
data-structures7
algorithm7
algorithms7
json7
kubernetes-pods5
kubernetes5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
vitessio/vitess
Aug 2016 - Oct 2016
Vitess is a database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 16 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Christopher contributed to the development of the `numeric_static_map` vindex within the Vitess database clustering system. Their work involved creating and modifying Go code for this new vindex, including mapping and verification logic, and adapting it to utilize a JSON-based lookup table. The commits also included refactoring and fixing code issues related to this vindex, and addressing code review feedback. This work appears to be focused on enhancing Vitess's sharding capabilities and data migration functionalities.
mysqltidbhorizontal-scalingsqlvitess
chrisgillis/vim-bootstrap3-snippets
Mar 2014 - Feb 2016
Contributions:24 commits, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 11 months
vimbootstrap-3snippetstwitterbootstrap
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