Summary
Christopher Ogden is a seasoned software engineer and pragmatic technical leader with 12 years building and operating large-scale, low-latency systems—from MMOs and payment gateways to Google-scale infrastructure. He has led teams responsible for core networking, proprietary high-speed databases, authentication, billing and account systems, and is comfortable breaking things to learn how they work (literally at Google as a TLM). Based in San Jose, he currently experiments with home automation and light-bulb mischief while continuing to design reliable production systems. His background spans hands-on C/C++ performance engineering through higher-level service orchestration, and he brings a lab-honed attention to operational detail from early analytical roles. Colleagues would describe him as a curious problem creator who turns those problems into robust, scalable solutions.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Snow College
Computer Science, Computer Science at Utah Valley University
English