Christopher Mallery
Senior Software Engineer at Cognitiv
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Mallery is a senior software engineer and entrepreneur with nine years of experience building and modernizing large-scale distributed systems, most notably leading the rapid redesign and deployment of Microsoft’s 24-year-old Iris delivery engine. He has driven high-throughput platforms that serve over 100,000 offers/ads per second across Microsoft surfaces, blended deep system architecture skills with hands-on implementation, and mentored engineers in SRE and distributed system best practices. As owner of RetroSpy Technologies he combines hardware design and open-source software to serve streaming communities and vintage-computing enthusiasts, reflecting a rare mix of production-scale cloud engineering and low-level hardware craftsmanship. Based in Redmond, he holds advanced degrees in computer science and brings a pragmatic, delivery-focused approach that thrives on replacing brittle legacy systems with robust, observable platforms.
9 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
University of WashingtonB.S., M.S., Ph.D., Computer Science, B.S., M.S., Ph.D., Computer Science at Washington State University
Github Skills (60)
nintendo-ds10
sega10
viewer10
controller10
windows10
commodore10
genesis10
hardware10
nintendo10
arduino-library10
libretro10
xinput10
arduino10
sketch10
arcade10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
retrospy/USBProxy
Jul 2019 - Sep 2023
This is RetroSpy's fork of USBProxy. It is used to spy on USB controllers via a BeagleBone Black or Green.
Contributions:15 PRs, 145 pushes, 12 branches in 4 years 2 months
beaglebonecontrollersretrospyusbbeaglebone-black
retrospy/RetroSpy
Mar 2018 - Jan 2023
Live controller viewer for Nintendo consoles as well as many other retro consoles and computers. Includes viewer application for Windows, and Arduino sketch for hardware interface.
Contributions:80 releases, 1 review, 773 commits in 4 years 11 months
controllerwindowsretroarcadegenesis
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