Christopher O'brien
Senior Software Engineer at Roku Inc.
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher O'brien is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building robust backend systems, currently contributing to Roku's engineering efforts from Boston. He brings deep expertise in object-oriented design, C++, Java, and PostgreSQL, shaped by roles at DataXu and Hewlett Packard Enterprise where he tackled performance-sensitive and data-driven problems. Comfortable across the stack, he has a track record of modernizing legacy code and integrating systems—skills honed early in projects that migrated JS to C# and tied 3D Navisworks visualization into enterprise tools. Pragmatic and detail-oriented, he favors maintainable architectures and measurable improvements in reliability and query performance. A Wentworth Institute of Technology computer science graduate, he blends enterprise-scale experience with a hands-on engineering mentality.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Wentworth Institute of Technology
Github Skills (38)
monitor10
python10
data-science10
data-engineering10
machine-learning10
apache10
scheduler10
etl10
automation10
mlops10
orchestration10
proximity9
data-pipelines9
cytoscapejs9
apache-airflow9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
SoxMax/FG-Effect-Builder-Plugin-Starfinder
Jun 2022 - Jan 2024
Plugin for the FG Effect Builder providing Starfinder effects
Contributions:4 releases, 4 PRs, 10 pushes in 1 year 7 months
starfinderpluginbuilder
SoxMax/Extended-automation-and-overlays
Nov 2021 - Mar 2025
Contributions:49 pushes, 18 branches in 3 years 4 months
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