Christopher Mcarthur
Senior Configuration Release Engineer
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolChristopher Mcarthur is a Senior Configuration Release Engineer with a decade of experience building low-latency distributed systems, secure networking stacks, and DevOps workflows for embedded and desktop applications. Based in Sunnyvale, he currently drives improvements in distributed build systems, reliability, and observability using tools like Ansible, Prometheus, Grafana, FluentBit, and ElasticSearch to shorten build times and enable self-healing infrastructure. Previously at JFrog he advocated Conan 2.0 adoption across the C++ ecosystem and led open-source supply-chain work such as the Pyrsia decentralized package network and a Proof-of-Authority blockchain prototype. An active C++ open-source contributor, he has improved authentication, JWT handling, and move semantics in prominent libraries (restinio, jwt-cpp, jsoncons), demonstrating deep expertise in standards and memory-safe design. He combines hands-on systems programming with developer advocacy and a practical focus on supply-chain security and reproducible builds. Colleague-rated for clear communication and analytical problem solving, he’s equally comfortable debugging kernel-to-userspace networking as he is crafting CI/CD pipelines.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
DEC - social sciences with commerce Business/Commerce General, DEC - social sciences with commerce Business/Commerce General at CEGEP - John Abbott CollegeBachelor of Computer Science Computer Application, Bachelor of Computer Science Computer Application at Concordia University
English, French
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Github Skills (28)
json10
c-language10
testing10
web-token10
http10
rest10
cryptography10
jsonwebtoken10
jwt10
cprogramming-language10
json-serialization10
unit-testing9
asio9
unit-test9
cpp9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
Thalhammer/jwt-cpp
Jan 2020 - Oct 2022
A header only library for creating and validating json web tokens in c++
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 releases, 141 reviews, 201 commits in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily focused on the back-end aspects of the project, contributing to the implementation of JWT creation and validation functionalities. Their commits demonstrate integration with the picojson library and refactoring of the claim handling functionality. Furthermore, the user made contributions to the testing infrastructure, suggesting a strong focus on the quality and reliability of the project's cryptographic core. The user also shows proficiency in utilizing the boost libraries for json handling.
cpptokensheaderjson-web-tokenheader-only
Stiffstream/restinio
Mar 2020 - May 2020
Cross-platform, efficient, customizable, and robust asynchronous HTTP(S)/WebSocket server C++ library with the right balance between performance and ease of use
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 7 PRs, 36 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Christopher focused on implementing and refining bearer authentication functionality within the restinio library. Their work involved creating parsers, adding unit tests, and correcting the parsing logic to align with RFC 6750. These changes include updates to the `bearer_auth` helper, ensuring correct handling of authorization headers and base64 encoded tokens. The user also improved the test suite to accurately validate the authentication methods.
ease-of-useasynchttp-serverbeastasio
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