Christopher Parks
Senior Software Engineer at CrowdStrike
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Parks is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years of experience specializing in typed functional programming, compilers, distributed systems, and embedded systems, currently working at CrowdStrike out of San Francisco. He has a strong Haskell and Rust focus—highlighted by a stint as Senior Haskell Engineer at Hasura and an on-profile "friendly Haskell boy" GitHub persona—and prefers remote or flexible roles. His background includes leadership and senior engineering roles at Freckle by Renaissance and production automation work at Apple, showing a track record of moving from tooling and testing into high-assurance system development. Christopher is selective about domain fit and explicitly avoids crypto, defense, and fintech, signaling a values-driven approach to product choices. Colleagues can expect deep type-driven design skills paired with practical systems engineering and experience shipping reliable, maintainable software at scale.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at University of Kentucky
Github Skills (72)
testing10
rest-api10
haskell10
javascript10
graphql-api10
purescript10
jsdoc10
api10
access-control10
sql-server10
documentation-generator10
qtwebkit10
mongodb10
lambda-calculus10
strongly-typed10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
cdparks/lambda-machine
Oct 2015 - Oct 2021
A simple UI for evaluating expressions in the untyped lambda calculus
Contributions:13 releases, 238 commits, 6 PRs in 6 years 1 month
lambda-calculuspurescriptreact
cdparks/advent2020
Dec 2020 - Jan 2021
Contributions:44 commits, 45 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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