Christopher Kintner
Senior Software Engineer at GitHub
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolChristopher Kintner is a senior software engineer with 11 years of experience focused on securing software supply chains and building reliable deployment systems. Currently on GitHub’s Dependabot team, he blends security-first engineering with hands-on DevOps experience—evidenced by contributions to zendesk/samson that added SSL enforcement and automated lock expiration for more robust deployments. His background includes multiple security and product roles at Zendesk and HIPAA-sensitive application work at UW School of Medicine, giving him deep operational and compliance experience. Based in Seattle, he pairs pragmatic engineering with community leadership—he once led an all-volunteer board in Oakland to improve street safety—bringing a measured, systems-oriented approach to solving complex infrastructure and security problems.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering at University of Wisconsin-Madison
English
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Github Skills (17)
kubernetes10
locking10
continuous-delivery10
kubernetes-pods10
locks10
cicd9
configuration-management9
rails8
ruby8
ruby-rails8
testing8
environment-variables7
automation7
activerecord7
automations7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
zendesk/samson
Jun 2015 - Mar 2016
Web interface for deployments, with plugin architecture and kubernetes support
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:10 commits, 10 PRs, 32 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Christopher focused on enhancing the deployment and configuration aspects of the `samson` project, a web interface for deployments. They implemented SSL enforcement through environment variables, ensuring secure access to the application. Additionally, they improved system reliability by introducing automatic lock expiration and a cleaner task, demonstrating their focus on operational aspects within the project's lifecycle. The user also modified tests and helped implement the new lock feature.
continuous-deploymentplugin-architectureweb-interfacedeploymentdocker
kintner/rack-oauth2
Jun 2015 - Jan 2019
OAuth 2.0 Server & Client Library. Both Bearer and MAC token type are supported.
Contributions:4 pushes, 2 branches, 2 comments in 3 years 8 months
oauth-2client-libraryclient-servertokenauthentication
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