Christopher Houser
Senior Facilities Engineer at Equinix
Greater Richmond Region United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Houser is a Senior Facilities Engineer with 19 years of hands-on experience in commercial and data center electrical systems, currently managing critical infrastructure at Equinix. A journeyman electrician by training, he specializes in installation, testing, repair, and maintenance of AC/DC power systems, with deep familiarity with industry codes and metering diagnostics. His background includes roles at Verizon and Terremark supporting high-availability customer loads, demonstrating a steady progression into senior operational responsibility. Christopher also contributes to software projects on GitHub, notably working on core language features for ClojureScript and a full-stack implementation of a Lisp interpreter, reflecting uncommon cross-discipline fluency between low-level power systems and functional programming. He is known for rapid problem analysis and pragmatic solutions that minimize downtime in mission-critical environments. Based in the Greater Richmond area, he blends field expertise with engineering discipline to improve reliability at scale.
19 years of coding experience
Journeyman, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Journeyman, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Germanna Community College
Github Skills (38)
reader10
clojure-cli10
printer10
ocaml10
clojure10
evaluator10
compiler-design10
functional-programming10
clojurescript10
lisp10
lisp-interpreter10
data-structure9
hashmap9
immutability-helper9
immutability9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
kanaka/mal
Jan 2014 - Feb 2015
mal - Make a Lisp
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:63 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily contributed to the development of a Lisp interpreter, demonstrating a full-stack skillset. Their commits show the implementation of core components of a Lisp interpreter in OCaml, including a reader, printer, and evaluator. Furthermore, they made improvements to the project's test suite and overall structure.
pythonc-plus-plusmalc-sharpcommon-lisp
clojure/clojurescript
Jun 2011 - Aug 2011
Clojure to JS compiler
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:89 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Christopher made significant contributions to the ClojureScript compiler by implementing essential core functions. Their work focused on adding fundamental building blocks such as `Cons`, `lazy-seq`, `list`, `vector`, and `hash-map` along with the associated interfaces. Further, they implemented key functional programming concepts such as `reduce` and several sequence operations, which are foundational for the ClojureScript language. They also worked on integrating and refactoring the compiler to include support for quoted and unquoted vectors, maps, and literal metadata.
compilerclojureclojurescript
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